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What, how, and why we design. Opinions and learnings from the people behind Wise.

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LLM prompt box with the title "Wise prompt coach", and the content "From playtime to practice"
From playtime to practice
Designing AI with the Prompt Coach
29 August 2025
Calculator from the Wise app in motion
Translating Motion into Code
How we worked with engineering to create moments of delight
24 April 2025
Wise platform stack
The Art of Sub-branding
A case study in good collaboration
5 March 2025
Wise 3D globe on mobile screen
How did we build 3D animations in mobile apps?
Bringing our 3D animations to life across the Wise experience.
29 January 2025
Wise Sans
Wise Sans refined
Expressive by Default.
6 Oct 2024
EDS
The Editorial Design System
How and why we created a unified design system for all our logged-out web pages.
21 Jun 2024
Words matter
Words Matter
Our approach to career progression and reward at Wise.
15 Mar 2024
Heart
For people going places
How we founded the design interns programme at Wise.
17 Oct 2023
Hello in inter
Creating a Wise typographic set
How we created an international type library for everyone, everywhere.
22 May 2023
The globe icon in Forest Green.
The Making of an Icon
How we made a globally recognisable and scalable icon library.
17 April 2023
A capital N and a lowercase eñe in Inter
Accessible but never boring Part 2
Rebranding the Wise design system for everyone (part 2).
23 March 2023
A circle showing two contrasting greens from Wise colour pallet
Accessible but never boring Part 1
Rebranding the Wise design system for everyone (part 1).
1 March 2023
A megaphone with tapestry on it
From stale to stand out
How to create a brand voice that speaks volumes.
1 March 2023
The globe icon in Forest Green.
Going everywhere
Meet our new design system.
1 March 2023
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