PipCoin
PipCoin was a social mobile tipping platform — drop a coin in anyone's pip jar to show appreciation. Friends, coworkers, bands, baristas, anyone.
I was a co-founder and designed the full product experience across iOS and web. In addition, I used Appcelerator to write cross-platform code for the iPhone and Android mobile apps, designed the identity, illustrated the coin iconography, created the pitch deck, and presented to investors.
Onboarding
Giving to non PipCoin users was a key use case. We planned on leveraging the major social networks but knew email and SMS would be critical at launch.
I brushed up on my 1999 HTML table layout skills to support the various email clients. The most difficult technical challenge was supporting the custom coin color and icon. Nested tables and transparent gifs to the rescue.
Merchants
My experience designing and developing 3rd party JavaScript widgets at Pluck sparked the idea of offering merchants the ability to host a Pipcoin widget on their site. This concept grew into designing an application for merchants to create branded coins and campaigns through the PipCoin Merchant App.
