ux design · ui design
Habitat
Control, clarity, and connection
The Problem
Apartment managers track fees, tenants, and announcements largely by hand in spreadsheets, paper ledgers, scattered notes. It is slow, error-prone, and left no single source of truth.
Solution
Manual processes don’t scale, and fee collection gets out of hand without a system behind it. At Dinero, a fintech company, there was a real opportunity: build a management app with our own payment infrastructure baked in. Collected fees were invested, and the returns could fund real improvements that the residents chose for the complex.
Apartment complex budget control
Voting on the same platform
Easy announcements and notifications
Up-to-date with apartment board
Constraints
This project was finished in 3 weeks and I was working with a mobile developer. Habitat already existed as a desktop web app with a different name, the visual language and core feature set were established but was management-facing. I was assigned to design the tenant-facing side. I had to rethink the screen size as well as the end user.
The Approach
I started with an entire end-to-end flow in a week that covers fee collection, announcements, tenant directory, and a voting module. Peer review reshaped a lot of my early assumptions. From there, I spent two weeks refining the core modulest.
Translating Desktop Patterns to Mobile
The clearest example was payment history. On desktop, this lived in a dense table. That doesn’t fit a phone screen, so I broke each entry into a card with a dedicated detail page for the full record. My first pass tried to cram too much onto one place, chasing minimal clicks. A senior designer pushed back on that instinct, more clicks are fine as long as each one adds value. I moved the deeper detail to its own page and let the card just orient the user, which ended up being a cleaner hierarchy.
Working With Engineering
Once the design was solid, I handed it to the mobile developer and we iterated together. This was my first experience collaborating with engineering in person so their feedback was quick but detailed.
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© 2026 Pınar Adanır. UX/UI Product Designer.
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