How to fix a problem like the rental market?
The private rental sector suffers from a lack of transparency. Good landlords have a hard time identifying good tenants, and good tenants have a tough time identifying good landlords. As a result both parties often encounter bad apples! The countless amendments to the law over the years haven’t really solved the problem and existing reference checks often aren’t sufficient.
Tenancy Passport aimed to provide a solution to this issue.
From idea to product
This project began at #hackrealestate hosted at the largest real estate conference in the world - MIPM by the fledgling property tech event Future: Proptech.
The idea with tenancy passport was to make it easier for good tenants and good landlords to demonstrate their trustworthiness. Through the concept of the tenancy passport, A tenant can upload all the standard information required for renting, build up a reputation and get verified by other users in the system. Likewise landlords can do the same, uploading agreements, certificates and other relevant information to their passport and sharing with prospective tenants easily.
Wireframes
The initial concept was mocked out first on pen and paper and then low fidelity wireframes created in adobe xd cc to capture a user flow that solves the problem being addressed.
Initial user flow diagram of application created using Adobe XD and Overflow.io
see interactive user flow diagram in full here
“One of the superpowers that designers have is that we can just create stuff out of the ether, and do it a thousand times really quickly.”
The application allowed the user to maintain a profile, and upload relevant documents. They could easily share their profile complete with documents as a 'passport' to a prospective landlord/tenant.
Working Prototype
Once the wireframes and user flow were completed, it was time to create a working prototype. Using standard web technologies html, css, and javascript a fully interactive prototype was built that fully demonstrated the flow of the application.
From idea to conception - The Tenancy Passport working protoype built in HTML, CSS, and Javascript was demoed to investors, estate agents, other property technology entrepreneurs and industry movers and shakers at the FUTURE: Proptech event. Click here to see the live landing page for this app
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