#FANTpåFarten

//The brief

FANT (for a new tomorrow) is a Copenhagen organisation that uses sport to support development work in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Gambia. #FANTpåFarten is its fundraising campaign: people get active, and sponsors pay for every bit of it. The idea needed a real product that could tie money directly to measurable activity: DKK per kilometre for running and cycling, per rep for push-ups and burpees, per minute for planking, and something sensible for everything else.

//What I built

I designed the product and directed the build, from architecture and user flows to the UI. People sign up and go straight into the app, create an activity with a sport, unit and target, add sponsors and log their progress. The dashboard shows what they’ve raised, their activities, sponsors and recent logs. Communities let people rally around one activity: joining adds it to your activities and makes the community owner your sponsor. There are separate leaderboards for individual activities and for communities, a public page anyone can share without an account, an admin panel, and full Danish and English throughout.

//Designing for live use

The real work started once people used it. Leaderboards showed “User” instead of names, so the rule became name, then email, never a generic label. A push-up log could appear as burpees in a community view, so every screen now reads one source of truth for the activity type. Changing a community’s unit reset members’ totals to zero, so unit changes became configuration that never touches historical records. One-time sponsors needed a fixed amount that doesn’t multiply with distance. Share links went from UUIDs to readable names, and the public page leads with progress, like 33.5 km, rather than money.

//The result

In two weeks, participants raised 64,201.71 DKK through the platform. When the campaign ended, I moved the app into a finished state rather than switching it off: every activity, community, sponsor and leaderboard is still there, and people can log in and look back at what they achieved, but nothing can be changed.

//Review

Every screen was thought through. Our users stopped asking where things were.