Expert FinTech Design & Product Strategy

Our hands-on experience in the financial services industry, along with our advanced design & data visualization capabilities, make us the go-to partner for FinTech product teams.

A Guidea client giving a presentation at a conference on stage
Digital Wall user interface

'05

Established

in Austin, Texas

Recognized

As a Top UX Agency

Trusted

Design Partner

WOSB

Owned & Led by Women

8 Unicorns

Research
Design
Breakthrough FinTech Products

We’ve designed everything from intuitive consumer apps to advanced institutional investment platforms. Steep learning curves, complex workflows, data-intensive designs, and regulatory requirements are all in a day’s work for our FinTech product design experts.

Trusted by top FinTech companies

Opportunities for FinTech Innovation

FinTech Expertise

Enterprise DesignOps

UX Leadership for Bloomberg

Mobile UX Expertise

Workshops & Talks for CapitalOne and Visa

Product & Design Innovation

A Ten Year Partnership with PayPal

Credit as a Service

Product Strategy & Design for Deserve

Credit for the Underbanked

Mobile App Design for Self via TechStars

Crypto Forecasting Tools

UX Research & Design for Wrabbit

Digital Transformation

OLB Research & Design for WSECU

Financial Market Ratings

Innovation and Design for Fitch Ratings

Finovate Award Winning PaaS

Eight Year Partnership with Backbase

Global Asset Management

Mobile Strategy for Victory Capital & USAA

Payments for Marketplaces

Platform Design for Finix

Portfolio Management

UX Design for Dimensional Fund Advisors

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Best of Show Finovate 2017 with “The Everyday Bank”

Award Winning Partnerships

London Design Awards
Finix
2023
Brighterion Mastercard: AI Excellence Award
MasterCard
2022
Best Solution in KYC Data Management
Bloomberg
2018
Excellent in Technology Award
UFCU
2021
Frost & Sullivan Award
Finix
2021
Fintech Breakthrough Award
Self.
2020
Financial Times Financial Innovation Award
WSECU
2019
Excellence in Technology Awards
WSECU
2019
Fast Company Most Innovative Company Award
Deserve
2019
Finnovate Best in Show
Backbase
2018
Finnovate Best in Show
Backbase
2017
Finnovate Best in Show
Backbase
2016
UBS Future of Finance Challenge Winner
TrueProfile
2015
Finnovate Best in Show
Backbase
2014
Mobile Tech Design Award Winner
PayPal
2011

What our FinTech Partners Think

Unicorn

"We engaged Guidea for dozens of design innovation and execution projects at PayPal over a ten year time period. Their deep expertise in FinTech as well as mobile design strategy allowed us to quickly launch innovative experiences across the globe. For customers, merchants and PayPal partners including Discover, Home Depot. Starbucks and others. Their longest running success was Mobile Express Checkout, which helped provide a 33.7% spike in conversion rates for merchants and scaled to process billions in mobile payments annually by 2015. I wouldn't hesitate to hire them again."

Damon Hougland
Sr. Director
PayPal

Unicorn

"Guidea has created hundreds of designs for my development team to reference. Their work is super professional. The designs are well thought out, user friendly, visually appealing, and most importantly, clearly documented for developers."

Ryan Crawford
Dir. of Engineering
MasterCard

Unicorn

"The project went very smoothly."

Marcy Fischer
VP Digital Partnerships
Fidelity

Unicorn

"They’ve always gone above and beyond. We work closely with them, and we’re really happy. My team basically considers Guidea as our team. They’re very knowledgeable in their field and are experts in usability and UX areas, information architecture, research, and wireframing. They’re top-notch."

Kitven Lee
Dir. of Product Mgmt
MasterCard

Unicorn

"Guidea’s biggest asset is their research-driven design. Other companies might make research part of what they do, but research is the center of what Guidea does. Something that really stood out about working with Guidea was that we got their top talents working on our project, which made a huge difference."

Pat Nicholson
CMO
Deserve

Unicorn

"The UI designs Guidea delivered were leaps and bounds better than what we started with: grounded in user research, systematized, and beautiful. Our users loved the updates to our web app and the internal team was really excited by the momentum that work delivered." 

Ljuba Youngblom
Interim Head of Product Design
Finix

Unicorn

"I really enjoyed that they’re a boutique design firm; they provided a personal touch and personal attention. We worked with really talented and dedicated people who listened to our needs and expectations, acting as active partners during those discussions, and creating a very collaborative environment."

Mike Irwin
Dir. Digital Strategy & Innovation
UFCU

Unicorn

"Working with Guidea was one of the best decisions we’ve made, because of the breadth of experience that they have working in different industries. They brought all of that knowledge and insight to bear and really delivered some powerful insights on specific questions that helped guide the product strategy."

Ben Morales
CTO
WSECU

Unicorn

The team is flexible and adapts its approach to suit the individuality of the challenge. Guidea (A Theresa Neil Design Company) does not rely on scripted approaches and instead addresses each project on a case by case basis. It always felt as if they were highly engaged and thinking about the problem as thoughtfully as we were. They are one of the most creative vendors I’ve had the opportunity to work with."

Nathan Linde
VP Member Experience
WSECU

Unicorn

"With Guidea, we were very clear and confident on what direction we needed to take after the project was completed."

Elisa Guzman
Founder & COO
Wrabbit

Unicorn

"Theresa Neil's strategic approach and her UX/UI team were able to understand the mobile app approach quickly, audience needs, and current situation to make immediate, impactful recommendations utilizing a heuristic review approach and industry expertise to help ensure a world-class UX/UI."

Gene Miller
Marketing Director
Victory Capital

Unicorn

"Theresa and her team were a great partner when we redesigned a whole analytical financial platform and set the path for good usability for years to follow. We did thorough market research and planning to get us a great new experience. Executives, internal staff, the sales teams and clients loved the new designs. It would be great to work with Theresa and her team again."

Eram Schlegel
Chief Product & Marketing Officer
Fitch Solutions

Strategic Product Design for FinTech Solutions

Our proprietary design methodology, Strategic Product Design, has been developed over 18 years in partnership with every size of company, from seed-stage startups to Fortune 100 enterprise organizations. Strategic Product Design is the fastest, most effective way to create designs that deliver measurable results for FemTech product teams.

Finix dashboard, a Guidea client
Mobile payments

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Whether you're a seed-stage startup looking to improve your UX design or an enterprise organization seeking higher adoption and retention, we've got the experience to help you succeed. Meet with us and discuss your business and product goals.

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