Equities Dashboard

BVRD's first equities dashboard was introduced in the context of the arrival of the first publicly traded stock in the Dominican market. It gave the public a dedicated place to follow the instrument, understand its latest price and explore trading activity.

As the market expanded and additional listed companies were introduced, the product needed to evolve with it. Feedback and requirements received by BVRD from brokerage firms and end users, together with limitations in the existing experience, became the starting point for a second version.

The first release established the foundation, but real-world use exposed limitations that became more important as the equities market evolved.

Some parts of the interface were visually fragmented or did not behave consistently. Other areas dedicated significant space to market information that could provide limited value depending on actual trading activity and liquidity. At the same time, requirements reaching BVRD from brokerage firms and end users created new expectations for what the dashboard should communicate.

The challenge was not simply to modernize the interface. It was to reconsider which market information deserved attention, what could be simplified, and how the experience should organize financial data for a broad public audience.

Financial products can easily become exercises in displaying every available metric. For V2, the objective was different: the interface had to reflect how the Dominican equities market was actually being used.

That meant questioning elements inherited from the first version rather than automatically preserving them. Business requirements had to be balanced against the usefulness of the information, the frequency with which meaningful data would actually be available, and the amount of attention each component consumed on screen.

The resulting experience prioritized signals that could help users answer practical questions quickly.

V2 reorganized the experience around a clearer progression from instrument identity to current market state and historical behavior.

Instead of treating every dataset as equally important, the interface establishes layers: security information provides context, current pricing communicates the immediate market state, brokerage activity adds participation context, and historical data helps users understand behavior over time.

The second version was not approached as a visual facelift. It was an opportunity to reconsider the product after its first period of real-world use and prepare the experience for a broader equities market.

My role extended beyond defining the experience. I worked across product coordination, interface design and front-end implementation, translating parts of the redesigned experience into a responsive production interface.

Building parts of the product also meant confronting design decisions with real technical constraints. Charting libraries were explored and evaluated against the information the product needed to communicate, and the selected approaches were integrated into the responsive experience.

Working across design, product and implementation reduced the distance between what was proposed and what could actually be delivered.

The second version became the evolution of BVRD's public equities experience, incorporating what had been learned from the first release while supporting a broader market context.

The project reinforced a principle that became increasingly important in my work: financial interfaces are not improved by exposing more data, but by making deliberate decisions about which information helps people understand what is happening.