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Portfolio Case Study

TMX Finance LLC

Lead UX Product Designer (Mobile Platform)

Carrollton, Texas · Reports to: VP of Product · Aug 2018 – Jan 2019
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Role & Scope

  • Led UX for customer-facing and agent-facing mobile products in a highly regulated financial-services environment.
  • Partnered with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to design experiences that were both compliant and empathetic for underbanked consumers.
  • Worked end-to-end — from discovery interviews and journey mapping through wireframes, hi-fi design, and design QA.

Customer Experience

Mobile Customer Experience

  • Redesigned onboarding, account access, payment, and support flows to reduce friction and increase conversion for underserved consumers.
  • Clarified complex financial concepts using plain language, progressive disclosure, and visual aids — reducing support call volume.
  • Used progressive disclosure to keep screens focused while making power-user details accessible without overwhelming first-time users.
  • Enabled self-service pathways with clear escalation routes to live assistance for sensitive or high-stakes scenarios.

Operational Tools

Agent & Operations Tools

  • Designed tablet and desktop tools for in-store and call-center agents handling loans, renewals, and customer support.
  • Reduced redundant navigation by consolidating information from multiple legacy screens into single, contextual views.
  • Embedded guardrails and just-in-time compliance guidance directly into agent workflows to reduce errors and policy violations.

Compliance & Trust

Compliance & Trust

  • Visualized disclosures, consent flows, and eligibility criteria in ways customers could genuinely understand — not just legally satisfy.
  • Used UX research to identify and redesign anxiety-causing touchpoints, particularly around rejection, fees, and repayment.
  • Shifted the internal focus from 'did we show the disclosure?' to 'does the customer understand their options?' — improving both compliance and satisfaction.