Intergiro was a Swedish fintech startup offering a comprehensive Banking-as-a-Service platform – a "financial cloud" enabling companies to launch bank accounts, issue cards, execute FX, and manage payment flows via API.
I led all product design efforts during a time when the company was rapidly expanding its embedded finance offerings. Our goal was to wrap highly regulated banking capabilities in a simpler, developer-friendly interface.
Challenges
The challenge was to make highly regulated, API-driven products approachable for both developers and end users, while scaling a consistent design language across multiple portals and apps.
Creating a unified experience that felt coherent, despite the diversity of flows, was essential. The role of the design team was to abstract this complexity into interfaces that were intuitive, while still giving users the clarity and trust they needed when dealing with money.
Impact
I delivered end-to-end design of B2B and B2B2C products, including white-label and custom card issuing. I also designed and launched the bulk payments interface, which within three months accounted for 18% of total transaction volume.
To support rapid product expansion, I built and scaled a central design system across the customer portal, merchant portal, mobile apps, onboarding, and back office. This reduced design time for new features and gave Intergiro the foundation for consistent, trustworthy experiences.
Looking back
Leading design at Intergiro taught me how to humanize technical and regulatory complexity. It reinforced that great fintech design is not only about simplicity, but about clarity and trust – helping users feel in control even when the systems behind the scenes are highly intricate.
Aliaksei Arkhipau, 2025