Built product foundations for a stock trading startup

Research • Product • Design

GoTrade

Built product foundations for a stock trading startup

Fintech

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Define

The challenge

  • Figure out who users are, their needs/wants, and how to translate insights into a great user experience.

How E8 helped

  • Led customer discovery to develop an understanding of target users which enabled business, product and design decisions to be made with customers front of mind.

Impact

23 in-depth interviews conducted

this formed the basis of our thinking

90+ survey respondents

from a quantitative study to validate initial qualitative findings

Entry into Y Combinator

following these foundations they got accepted into Yc's 2019 batch

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How we did it

Understood early adopters needs

  • Conducted 23 in-depth interviews with potential investors to build a deep understanding of early adopters.
  • Ran a nation-wide quantitative survey to validate qualitative findings at a larger scale.
  • Collaborated with the team to convert research findings into the right product and business model for MVP.

Conducted UX & design review

  • Ran a UX & Design review to critique the app experience against the target persona and behavioural psychology principles.
  • Prioritised optimisation areas after considering impact vs. effort.
  • Provided design recommendations for the highest priority optimisations.

Refreshed and redefined visuals for the app

  • Collaborated with GoTrade design team to refactor the apps visual style guide.
  • Created new versions of key screens in line with the new style.
  • Provided assets and recommendations on design process and workflows.

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