From vision to clickable prototype: we worked with The Q Foundation to define the right MVP features, map the user experience, and design interactive mockups - giving their mission-driven app both clarity and momentum.
Overview
The Q Foundation—a long-standing FileMaker user and nonprofit focused on preventing homelessness—saw an urgent need for a digital solution to help tenants pay rent, build credit, and access emergency funds. Partnering with the Beezwax product consultants and design team, the RentRX project transitioned quickly from a high-level vision to a feature-rich application.
Challenge
The RentRX project aims to translate social impact goals into a user-friendly mobile app while ensuring legal and financial compliance. It focuses on enabling secure, remote rent payments and building an individual's credit score to support users effectively during challenging times while also donating to charitable organizations. Additionally, the app will integrate multiple financial services, including a payment gateway, bank connectivity, and credit reporting, to create a seamless and cohesive experience for users. A major challenge in UX design was balancing complex features with a clean, elegant interface. We needed to keep powerful backend workflows and third-party integrations accessible without overwhelming users.
Ideation & Feature Prioritization
To start, we hosted whiteboard workshops (in person and virtual) to map out core user problems—rent payment, social lending, nonprofit assistance, and credit building. The Beezwax consulting team collaborated with the client on a comprehensive five-year financial model that layered tiered-pricing scenarios over staffing, operations, and marketing projections. This model captured variables, including projected user adoption rates, so the client could immediately see the impact on cash flow, break-even points, and long-term viability.
Once we had a clear understanding of the app’s potential and its business drivers, we moved from abstract planning into sketching concrete solutions. By distilling high-level goals into user journeys, we were able to decide which flows to wireframe first—such as account onboarding, rent payment wizards, and credit-reporting confirmations—ensuring each screen aligned with the brand, social mission, and financial constraints. These early sketches became the blueprint for our interactive prototype.
The design process focused on clarity and trust. RentRX needed an interface that could make complex financial tasks—like rent payments, credit reporting, and emergency fund access—feel simple and intuitive. By blending thoughtful layouts, clear language, and a mission-driven visual style, the design team created an experience that works seamlessly while reinforcing RentRX’s core values at every step.
The Success Story
Our work gave RentRX a solid foundation to move forward with confidence. Through workshops, financial modeling, and collaborative planning, we helped the team align around the most critical features for launch while providing stakeholders with a clear picture of long-term sustainability. The result—a mix of consulting and design—produced complete user flows, polished mockups, and a clickable prototype that gave RentRX clarity and momentum, accelerating investor conversations and positioning the app for development.
The app is currently in the testing phase; the clarity and momentum created during this phase represent a success in their own right: turning a mission-driven idea into a ready-to-build product.RentRX now stands positioned for real-world impact—pay rent, build credit, earn rewards, and do good.