Six years without a meaningful update — I led the full redesign across iOS and iPadOS.

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Product Overview

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Scanner Pro turns physical documents into clear, professional digital copies — automatic border detection, shadow removal, and perspective correction.

After 6 years without meaningful updates, the app felt abandoned. I mapped the entire product, built a design system from scratch, and led a full structural redesign across iOS and iPadOS.

Project timeline — 2.5 years
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Research methods

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Application structure map — 74 states and 76 transitions across four regions
The whole app, state by state

Every screen and state in the app and every transition between them — 74 states, 76 transitions — grouped into the four regions it actually splits into: entry, library, capture, document opened. Green marks the hubs where regions meet.

Competitive analysis 2019–2020 — Scanner Pro against CamScanner and Adobe Scan
The case for changing the business model

Scan quality had been commoditised, Adobe gave OCR away for free, and the volume leader monetised through an ad SDK that shipped a Trojan dropper in 2019. Side by side, the table argues for a new business model — not a new interface.

Proposed functionality against CamScanner and Adobe Scan, capability by capability
Judged on everything except OCR

OCR was table stakes by 2019, so each proposed capability was set against what the two leaders had already shipped: Smart Categories unmatched, cleanup already free at Adobe, search at parity, the repository catching up. The vault stayed unbuilt.

Users

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Problems

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Key Decisions

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Design Solutions

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The Outcomes

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Editors’ Choice by Apple · 4.9 from 327K reviews · USA Today, CNET, ZDNET, TNW, MacRumors, Macworld, The New York Times

The Learnings

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