Cool right?
It’s not much folks, but its a big leap for us in validating our product and its core functionality. As long as we can deliver an amazing brokerage experience.
In Build 1.0 I’ve taken my time to nail down the very heart of the app — execution via chat. And this process has been ongoing for a few months now, a few sauteed mushrooms later and a few minor panic attacks when things seem rather impossible. But persistence, testing and a healthy dose of Eric Rise — The Lean Startup kept us on the mark.
Let’s checkout some of the cool stuff we have been putting out :-
Login Screen
Certainly not the final version — but towards my vision of having an island city with all the world’s financial towers.
Evolution of the Order Box
Buying a stock for the first time is a right of passage in its own way. And our job here at Pasiv is to make that crossover as enjoyable and fulfilling as possible — digitally of course.
The order box really is the core experience the user in Pasiv will have to appreciate and enjoy in order to keep coming back and using this product. So its the one thing we’ve sat down and thought really hard about.
It all started with this
It’s clean, its’ functional, everything is put across. But somehow, it just didn’t feel like you purchased something of significant value once the whole thing was over. Definitely missing an element here. So we got back to the drawing board…and then we got down to the monopoly board.
Monopoly was everyone’s favorite game growing up — because it involved people, and it involved the dice, and it involved money. And it got me thinking — what if I went Banksy on this?
Then I went H.A.M on monopoly — its history, the icons, the symbolism. Monopoly by the Parker Brothers circa 1935 is one of the most iconic dice games ever to have been created as simple as that. And Page one of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing by Charles Darrow for a patent on the board game Monopoly, was filed and granted in 1935.
And then we found this…
As has been the norm through history, Monopoly has released countless themed versions of the game from Star Wars to Planet of the Apes.
← But this monopoly themed stock certificate right here is just gold.
For folks like us who live and breathe financial markets, finding a version of monopoly for the stock exchange is like losing a Trezor wallet prior to 2017, and then finding it again.
The parallels between the culture, the Dubai vibe, the monopoly game and what we are trying to achieve going from Zero to One with Pasiv all meet at the monopoly man. Alec we’d love to meet.
Within a couple days, I completely understood what I needed the order box to look like — a monopoly style stock certificate. And we started building just that.
We were getting there, but it needed to be more crisp, more monopoly.
So close, but then I remembered, that the logo would never be allowed as per apple in-app policy. Also the height meant it would take up practically the whole screen. A couple more design shake ups, and then it finally came out.
