Risk analytics, built for the people who manage money

Showing options, more than opinions

Early on, the founders didn't ask about functionality. They asked about looks: lots of color, with a Bloomberg-style screen as the reference.

Listening closer, I saw they wanted two things at once — a rich, colorful interface and a platform people could understand at a glance. Color with no system would cost them the second.

So I designed both side by side: color used freely, and a small color system where every color carries a meaning. The system gave them the look they wanted and the clarity they needed.

They chose the system — an option they hadn't asked for — and it shipped that way for client testing. It was the moment they started treating me as part of their team, and the start of three years working together.

It also set how we worked from then on: features like the paywall and chart hover states came to the team as two options to choose from, not a single answer to approve.

Speed came from the system, not shortcuts

By the second year, client feedback arrived fast, and the company's strategy was to act on it fast — to keep their customers happy and keep the product growing. Sometimes we designed a new page of the product in a single week.

I was trained to make everything as close to perfect as possible, so sprints that fast were a real challenge: the work didn't need to be perfect, but it needed to be fast.

Together with the brand team, I built an extensive system — buttons, dropdowns, status chips, table cells — that the developers and I could both build from. When a new feature stayed within the system, it came together quickly and stayed organized.

And the whole product stayed consistent — a core rule of good UI.