Top tier investment
bank design system

Top tier investment
bank design system

* due to the discrete nature of this project this case study is purposefully vague

Optimising the design system
for financial markets apps

Optimising the design system for financial markets apps

Optimising the design system for financial markets apps

The Markets Toolkit was developed as an expansion of the existing design system.
The reason being that financial markets apps have a set of unique requirements that needed to be achieved.

One of the first priorities during my time was to take the existing Markets Toolkit in Sketch and convert it to a Figma component library.

Evolution of buttons from user feedback

Evolution of buttons from user feedback

The generic CTA button in the global designs system was inadequate for our user needs.

The Financial Markets apps had multiple complex actions that needed to be taken into account in an app and that a single Call-to-Action wouldn’t suffice where a user might want to for instance BUY or SELL.

After a while our users asked us to further distinguish between other colour blocks and buttons. This is when we introduced gradients to the buttons.

CTA BUTTON


BUTTON

BUTTON

BUTTON

BUTTON

BUTTON

FLAT BUTTON

BUTTON

BUTTON

BUTTON

BUTTON

GRADIENT BUTTON

Built
atomically

Built atomically

Built atomically

Working closely with our development we utilised the Atomic Design methodology to build components that could scale.

We focused on keeping the system nearer to Atoms than to Templates to allow the designer to be able to find the most optimal solution for each application.

Stats

Stats

166+

166+

166+

PRODUCTION
APPS

1100+

1100+

1100+

BUSINESS
USERS

431+

431+

431+

ACTIVE MARKETS
LOG DEVELOPERS