Problem
Keeping up with markets meant bouncing between news sites, finance platforms, and social feeds — and still not having a clear picture.
a single view that connects world events to market movement.
Framing the requirements
A global picture
Top-performing stocks and industries, with risk made legible (high / moderate / low) rather than buried in numbers.
Connection between events and markets
What’s happening in the world, and which stocks or sectors it might affect.
Design decisions
I had a general sense of how I wanted the info to look on this platform.
Geography was the natural organizing structure, events happen somewhere, and markets are regional before they're global. That led to four connected surfaces:
The prototype
Here’s how the current design looks. The data shown is a mock snapshot. I first connected the platform to live data through Yahoo Finance, and I'm now exploring better options to take it further.