TapiKat Dashboard

Overview

TapiKat Dashboard represents the evolution of my original physical-to-digital concept into a more complete digital identity and contact-management platform. Building on the idea of NFC-enabled business cards, I designed the experience around a simple interaction: tap a physical card and immediately open a personalized mobile profile where contact and professional information can be viewed, shared, and saved directly to a smartphone. The dashboard expanded that experience by giving users a centralized interface for managing the information and digital experiences connected to their physical NFC products. I conceived and developed the product as an integrated system spanning product strategy, UX/UI design, responsive application development, NFC interaction, digital identity, data management, and cloud deployment. The project was developed through an increasingly agentic workflow, combining my product and design direction with AI-assisted engineering and rapid iteration to move from concept to functional software. More importantly, TapiKat Dashboard helped establish the architecture behind a broader idea: a physical object does not need to contain the experience itself—it can act as a persistent access point to a dynamic digital identity that can evolve without replacing the physical product. That principle became an important part of the larger TapiKat ecosystem and my continuing exploration of how physical products, software, NFC, and connected experiences can operate as one.