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Granted

Filipinos already chip in for each other: for a funeral, a fiesta, a neighbour’s tuition. Granted makes that easy for the small things that keep a family working, ₱100 at a time.

Year

2026

Role

Solo designer

Platform

iPhone

Status

Concept

Why I made it

A tricycle driver on our street lost a week of work waiting for tyres he couldn’t afford. Ten neighbours could have covered it in an afternoon. There was just no simple way to ask, or to know the money would reach him.

What I did

I designed it end to end: the feed, the wish, chipping in, the grant, every state, the first run and a Live Activity.

How it works

Post a photo and the amount you need. Neighbours chip in from ₱100 by GCash. Whoever gives the last of it closes the wish.

Nearly there first

Most fundraising apps show the newest asks first, so new ones pile up and few ever finish. I turned that around. The feed opens on the wishes closest to done, and each card says exactly what finishes it: Close it · ₱2,400.

Four screens of Granted moving: the feed switching tabs, ₱1,000 chipped in with an undo toast, the bakery’s wish closed with ₱1,400, and a wish opening from its card — Fig. 1
Switching tabs, chipping in, closing a wish, opening one
Recorded from the design

Every peso shows

The first thing people asked me was “how do I know it’s real?” So everyone who gives puts their face on the wish’s bar. The orange end is what’s still needed, and the bar turns green when the wish is granted.

A new wish for a banana-cue cart at ₱0 of ₱12,000, the people bar in six steps from nobody yet to granted, and the bakery’s wish with 38 givers and an orange end — Fig. 2
From nobody yet to granted

The last gift

Finishing a wish should feel like something. Whoever gives the last of it gets the Wish Closer badge, and the owner posts a thank-you for everyone who gave. Marites’ photo of her first batch from the new oven is my favourite screen in the app.

The bakery’s wish marked Granted, a ring filling while the payment goes through, and the Wish Closer badge: you gave the last ₱2,400 — Fig. 3
Closing a wish

Fig. 4

Granted, the thank-you and the badges

When something goes wrong

With money, the bad moments matter more than the good ones. Every gift can be undone from the toast that confirms it. If GCash declines, the sheet says nothing was charged and offers another way to pay. While the feed loads, its cards hold their place.

Three states: Chipped in ₱500 with Undo, a declined GCash payment that says nothing was charged, and the feed loading as grey shapes — Fig. 5
Undo, a declined payment and loading

The first run

Many of the people I showed it to had never used a fundraising app. So the onboarding explains it with real wishes in five screens, and asks for location last: only your barangay, never your exact spot.

Three onboarding screens: a photo and a number is the whole form, neighbours chipping in from ₱100, and thirty-eight neighbours round the one who gave the last ₱2,400 — Fig. 6
Onboarding

Fig. 7

Empty screens

On the lock screen

When a wish you gave to is almost done, it shows on your lock screen: ₱300 to go, then green when it’s granted.

Two lock screens: a Live Activity for an engine for a bangka with ₱300 to go, then the same wish granted, its ring green — Fig. 8
₱300 to go, then granted

What’s next

Next are the screens for posting a wish and for how the money reaches the person, with checks on who is asking. I’d also work through the rules for public fundraising here before any real money moves.

More work

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Planning and quoting for wedding stylists.

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