Commons
A neighbourhood lending app for borrowing tools, tents and kitchen gear, from research and wireframes to a small design system.
- Concept project
- 2026
- UI/UX Design
- UI/UX design
The brief
Commons is a library of things: neighbours list what they own and lend it out for free. Early users said finding an item was easy, but arranging the pick-up took too many messages.
Design direction
Interviews with twelve lenders shaped one rule: three taps from search to booked. The home screen leads with what is nearby, item pages show the lender and a day picker up front, and the confirmation screen does the scheduling.
Production
The work covered wireframes, a clickable prototype tested with eight people, and a compact design system of colours, type, buttons and cards so developers could build new screens without starting from scratch.
3 taps
From search to a booked pick-up, tested with eight neighbours.
Design the handover, not just the listing.
Shae-Lynn McKenzie
Graphic design
