Research & process

TxM was how home buyers and real estate folks signed and shared documents, and the stack was old. Simple tasks took too many steps.

It’s a niche, so nobody was breathing down our neck. That’s how a product sits still. If we wanted it to grow, the foundation had to be rebuilt.

I was the only designer (two of us after Flueid bought Vodii). I also ran the timeline, made technical calls, and wrote front-end. That’s the job when the team is that small.

First pass was an audit: what could we keep inside the old framework, and what had to be rebuilt. That set the scope and the timeline.

Then a modular architecture — reusable components so the next feature didn’t mean another rewrite.

Working alone is fast until you pick the wrong thing. I kept the first release to signing, sharing, and tracking, and left room in the system for what came next.