Frontier Car Group
Product design, 2017 - 2019
We were a cross-functional team where I, in first year and a half, was the sole designer, handling designs for 7 local markets, for iOS, Android and responsive web platforms.
When I joined in early 2017, we were around 10 people in the central team. During my time in FCG, we grew to 80 people centrally and over 2500 employees across the globe. I helped scale up the design team from 1 to 4 persons and established a design system that would help us move as fast as our growth while still making sure each local market would get their custom need fulfilled.
Frontier Car Group’s (FCG’s) mission is to digitalize and create infrastructure for the automotive industry in emerging markets. This is done by creating digital tools to help locals to buy and sell second-hand cars.
I was working on the dealer apps. Cars we bought from individuals were going out on digital live auctions to our network of car dealers within each local market.
“Detail view” of an auction for desktop web and the “Active auction”-list on android
From a business idea to markets world wide
When I joined FCG, they had just released very early MVP’s of the dealer apps for web. Android was still under development, and iOS didn’t have a team yet. In the MVP, we just had a list of live auctions, and a view where you could see information about the car (gathered from our physical inspection points when we bought it), and place a bid.
After 2 years we had multiple types of auctions, bid components for every local market need, auto bid functions, favorites, wishlist notifications and a check out flow from paying the car to booking a pick-up or delivery.
Parts of the Android “Checkout”-flow
iOS design specs–keeping track of all possible states and cases