Product Design
Solstice Banking
- Client
- Solstice Financial
- Year
- 2025
- Timeline
- 14 weeks
- Services
- Product Design, Design System, Prototyping
Overview
Solstice is a digital-first bank aimed at people who find traditional banking apps noisy and anxiety-inducing. We led the end-to-end product design: onboarding, the daily money dashboard, instant transfers, and a budgeting system built around gentle insight rather than red warnings. Every screen was designed dark-first, with a restrained cyan accent reserved for the moments that matter — a cleared payment, a met goal, a detected anomaly.
The Challenge
Banking apps compete on feature density, and Solstice's early roadmap was no exception. The challenge was resisting the urge to show everything at once — surfacing the right number at the right moment without ever making the app feel empty or underpowered.
The Outcome
Solstice onboarded 120,000 customers in its first six months with a 4.8-star rating. Support tickets about 'understanding my balance' dropped 54%, and the design system now ships new features in days instead of weeks.