Connecting people who build ideas, fund them and help deliver the work.
InventFunds brings Founder, Funder and Fixer workflows into one product. The design had to support project creation, discovery, evaluation, collaboration and NDA management across web and mobile.
- Role
- UI/UX Designer
- Contribution
- Product UI, states and implementation review
- Platforms
- Responsive web + mobile
- Implementation
- Angular + Ionic collaboration
Create projects, define phases and bring collaborators into the work
Discover projects, review details and structure investment decisions
Build a specialist profile, find opportunities and collaborate securely
Product model
Three roles enter the product with different goals.
Founders need to turn an idea into a structured project. Funders need enough information to compare opportunities and make a decision. Fixers need to show their expertise and find work where they can contribute.
The product could not use one generic dashboard for every user. Navigation, information priority and actions had to change with the selected role while shared project records remained connected.
Common records connect work across roles.
Each dashboard prioritises the next action for that role.
Access changes as collaboration becomes formal.
Founder workflow
Turn an early idea into work that other people can understand.
The Founder flow progressively structures a project through details, phases, team access and collaboration terms. This keeps the initial setup manageable while creating enough context for Funders and Fixers later.
Project basics and purpose
Phases, files and requirements
Team members and access
Terms before collaboration
Funder workflow
Move from discovery to evaluation without losing project context.
Funders browse projects, open detailed records and move through a guided evaluation process. The interface keeps project information, people and financial decisions connected instead of spreading them across unrelated screens.
The investment flow divides a complex decision into clear steps. Funders can review participants, define contribution details and confirm the structure before moving forward.
Browse projectsOpen full size
Review project detailsOpen full size
Select participantsOpen full size
Structure the contributionOpen full sizeFixer workflow
Make specialist expertise useful for project matching.
Fixers create profiles around expertise, industries and experience. The mobile experience then uses that context to support discovery, saved opportunities, collaboration and communication.
Collect expertise as structured profile information rather than relying only on a free-text bio.
Structured skills support clearer project discovery and help Founders understand why a Fixer may be relevant.
Detailed onboarding improves matching context, but it increases the effort required before the profile feels complete.
Trust and NDA
Make document status visible before people share sensitive work.
NDA information originally needed clearer separation by role and status. I worked on role-specific cards, current and past NDA sections, global templates and the empty, loading and error states around them.
The design treated NDA status as part of the collaboration workflow. Users needed to understand what was active, what required action and which document governed the project before accessing sensitive information.
Trust-state architectureThe NDA component is a workflow, not a document cardReview the state model that controls access, action and recovery.+
Portfolio reconstruction based on delivered design.
Explains who can create the agreement and what happens next.
Keeps incomplete legal context out of the collaboration flow.
Shows who must read or sign before access changes.
Identifies the agreement currently protecting the project.
Keeps historical context without implying current access.
Protects sensitive access and provides a recovery action.
Handoff and reflection
Design decisions continued into implementation review.
Design
Created role-specific dashboards, workflows, states and responsive interfaces.
Implementation support
Worked with the Angular and Ionic structure, reviewed component behaviour and checked UI styling.
Design QA
Compared implemented screens with the intended hierarchy, states and responsive behaviour.
A connected product model across web and mobile
The design covered role-based dashboards, project discovery, investment decisions, collaboration and document access.
Validate the longest decisions with real users
I would test Founder setup, Funder evaluation and Fixer onboarding separately, then measure where users pause, leave or need support.
Formal usability results, adoption metrics and investment outcomes were not available. This case study documents the delivered design work and the next validation steps without inventing business impact.