2021
Product Designer
I have worked on it project as Main Product Designer, from the first conversations with the client to the delivery of the project. All under the organization of an agency team.
My role has included product level decisions and design, wireframing, branding, UI design, handoff and support to the engineering team during the development phase.
Tool: Figma
Bolt's purpose is to make Canadian capital markets news more accessible and convenient. Bolt will enable users to easily stay-up-to-date with their favorite companies, see market performance, share their thoughts through discussion with other users, and see a curated feed of mainstream media coverage on the macro concepts that they find interesting.
Bolt users are individuals who are interested in keeping informed about the ever-changing landscape of Canadian capital markets. Investors, business news enthusiasts, traders.
The problem is that there’s no other app focused on Canadian Markets that aggregates all of this data in one place, nor do they have a modern interface.
The goal is to create one modern, beautiful, easy-to-navigate app.
I work together with the product manager on a feature list to enumerate each of the functionalities that the product must have. Once we have this, I move on to work on the Blockframes.
Here I’ll define all views it should have, the content, and the interactions of each one. This is not visual at all, I use a simple system of blocks and colors to differentiate navigation, actions, content, status, etc. This is an optimal way to test user flows and information architecture as well.
After the work of the previous phase, it is now easy to work on a more realistic prototype, defining how I am going to organize that information for the user.
I like to make high-fidelity wireframes, sometimes I even use some color, like in this data graph. But that really depends on each project, I always try to understand as much as possible each product, the goals, and the type of users, understanding the business is key to designing well.
The first step to giving the product an identity was to create a UI library. Select a color palette, typography and from there build the final look and feel for Bolt.
I knew I wanted yellow color as primary, so I contrasted it with dark blue. The selected type was Work Sans, a super flexible font with monospaced characters for the numbers. The end result is a modern, dark mode-like interface, with an emphasis on graphs and data.
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