I’m Rico, a Product Designer focused on financial products that operate under real world constraints.
I design brand, onboarding, trading experiences, and design systems for regulated fintech and digital asset platforms, supporting UHNW clients, institutional teams, and consumer users at scale.
I’ve worked with AMINA (Swiss, Global), JP Morgan (Global), Nationwide (UK), Metro Bank (UK), and ABSA (South Africa), collaborating fully remotely across regions and time zones.
Email or LinkedIn me, or view selected work below.
I’m Rico, a Product Designer focused on financial products that operate under real world constraints.
I design brand, onboarding, trading experiences, and design systems for regulated fintech and digital asset platforms, supporting UHNW clients, institutional teams, and consumer users at scale.
I’ve worked with AMINA (Swiss, Global), JP Morgan (Global), Nationwide (UK), Metro Bank (UK), and ABSA (South Africa), collaborating fully remotely across regions and time zones.
Email or LinkedIn me, or view selected work below.
I’m Rico, a Product Designer focused on financial products that operate under real world constraints.
I design brand, onboarding, trading experiences, and design systems for regulated fintech and digital asset platforms, supporting UHNW clients, institutional teams, and consumer users at scale.
I’ve worked with AMINA (Swiss, Global), JP Morgan (Global), Nationwide (UK), Metro Bank (UK), and ABSA (South Africa), collaborating fully remotely across regions and time zones.
Email or LinkedIn me, or view selected work below.
AMINA Onboarding
Designing trust-critical onboarding in a regulated crypto bank
High-risk flows where compliance, identity, and irreversible financial actions intersect.
High-risk flows where compliance, identity, and irreversible financial actions intersect.
High-risk flows where compliance, identity, and irreversible financial actions intersect.
Details shown at a high level due to confidentiality.
Securities Trading
Unifying trading across crypto and traditional securities
Designing execution flows that balance asset-specific risk models with a consistent trading experience.
Designing execution flows that balance asset-specific risk models with a consistent trading experience.
Designing execution flows that balance asset-specific risk models with a consistent trading experience.
Details shown at a high level due to confidentiality.
Markets Design System
Scaling a design system across 160+ financial products
Supporting dense, high-risk trading workflows without fragmenting teams or patterns.
Supporting dense, high-risk trading workflows without fragmenting teams or patterns.
Supporting dense, high-risk trading workflows without fragmenting teams or patterns.
Details shown at a high level due to confidentiality.
© 2025 Rico Smith. All rights reserved.
© 2025 Rico Smith. All rights reserved.
© 2025 Rico Smith. All rights reserved.