So, I’ve been following this project since pre-ICO and have been watching everyday as this super professional team makes amazing progress on their product and have been blown away by not only their timeliness of updates, but also communication with the community that is intrigued with what they’re working on.

I just finished my fall semester at school, and am about to start applying for internships for the summer. I’m hoping to find an internship doing UX Design/Product Design and thought what better way to add something to my portfolio than build something based on Request. Over the past 24 hours I have designed an iOS prototype for their platform.

As someone who is intrigued with user experience, I wanted to take inspiration from the couple mockup images the team had previously released of what their iOS app might look like and build my own version incorporating various use cases that I think the average person might find themselves in on a daily basis when interacting with their platform.

Below I present a few scenarios in which users might find Request incredibly efficient/versatile to use as a means of transacting instead of using payment methods such as PayPal, Credit Card payments, etc.

First Use Case: Business Expenses

With Request, employees at any company could easily input all of their business expenses in whatever currency they were paid for in and get refunded by their employers with the click of a button. Depending on where the expenses took place, the Request Network can automatically input the correct tax’s to the payments based on specific countries/states applicable laws. Right now when dealing with business expenses, it may take till the end of the month to get refunded, but with Request you can get refunded for your business expenses whenever your higher up receives the request. The expenses can then easily be added to your companies book by adding visibility to whoever is in charge of accounting at your company so they can track all of the incoming business expenses in real time.

For the prototype I added a feature I think would be really cool, which is the ability to take pictures of your receipts sort of like how The Bank of America app allows you to scan checks right into your account. I don’t know if this is something that the Request team has thought of, but I think it would be super beneficial to this aspect of the platform. Below are a few mockups of this section.