Sometimes the right UX move is making the serious thing a little more playful.
YATA
YATA (Yet Another Tinder App) turns transaction review into swipe decisions and uses those decisions to drive spending insights and geofenced merchant alerts.
I worked on this concept as a more playful take on financial awareness, blending Plaid transaction data, mobile interactions, and location-aware nudges into one app.
- Built a swipe-based transaction review flow in Ionic React so users could sort purchases as necessary or unnecessary with fast card interactions.
- Integrated Plaid-based onboarding and transaction fetching into a cross-platform mobile app built for web, iOS, and Android.
- Worked on local persistence and analytics for swipe history, merchant summaries, and spending insight generation.
- Helped shape a custom Android geofencing workflow through Capacitor so the app could trigger merchant-aware notifications based on prior behavior.
- Produced a working cross-platform app scaffold spanning web, iOS, and Android.
- Turned subjective swipe decisions into reusable merchant-level signals and lightweight personal-finance insights.
- Explored a more behavioral, product-forward way to interact with transaction data than a standard budgeting dashboard.