Understanding Growth - Microsoft Teams

Overview

At AYLIEN (now Quantexa), I led UX for Radar, a data-driven platform that enabled financial institutions to monitor, interpret, and act on real-time global news events related to economic and market risk. Radar combined NLP-powered event detection with highly customizable dashboards designed to deliver actionable insights to analysts, risk managers, and strategists.

My Role

  • UX/UI Lead from concept to delivery

  • Owned design for data visualization, dashboard architecture, and user journey flows

  • Collaborated with NLP engineers, product managers, and enterprise clients

Key Challenges

  • Make unstructured data (news and events) interpretable and scannable

  • Serve multiple user roles (e.g. compliance, risk, strategy) with personalized content views

  • Ensure performance and responsiveness across devices

Approach & Outcomes

  • Custom Dashboard Design: Developed configurable dashboards for users to filter, pin, and visualize events by geography, sector, entity, or risk category.

  • Role-Based UX: Designed unique workflows for different institutional roles—e.g., a compliance analyst needed different filters and alerts than a strategist.

  • Real-Time Content Delivery: Architected a feed-based layout supporting live event tagging and updates, similar to breaking news dashboards.

  • Mobile-Ready Design: Ensured UX was fluid and responsive across desktop, tablet, and mobile—critical for users needing access on the go.

  • Business Impact: Improved signal discovery and actionability, with early clients reporting a 50% reduction in time spent monitoring market signals. The platform contributed directly to client acquisition and was key in the company’s successful acquisition by Quantexa.