Dapt

Workshops before pixels: who Dapt is, who it isn’t, and what someone should feel the moment payroll opens. The answer was plain — stable, precise, trustworthy. No noise. No ego. Just clarity. Every decision after that had a test to pass.

A payroll brand earns trust by being boring in the right places. Simple type, a restrained palette, hierarchy you don’t have to think about. Confident without shouting — nobody wants their payroll provider to be exciting.

With the direction set, I redesigned the payroll run itself. Whoever runs payroll is handling other people’s salaries — the interface has to guide, never surprise.

The prototype cuts the run into clear steps with one decision per screen, and makes every action predictable enough that the second run feels like routine.