Our Best Practices Guide (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine

Hi! My name is Daria, and for the last two years, I’ve been working at Devexperts. I have experience creating various products, from crypto wallets to exchange administration platforms. Our target audience is diverse from professional and non-professional brokers, novice and experienced traders to dealing staff and trade desk operators. All of them use financial tools daily, and some of them — with high intensity.

Сontinuous use of the product under high tension conditions (which is common when we talk about the financial sphere) might cause eyestrain and general weariness. Consequently, users might make poor decisions and become inattentive to details, which will lead to harming their investment portfolios. My goal, as a designer, is to prevent these drawbacks and make daily operations comfortable.

The main designer’s instrument to work with the product is the UI kit, a collection of reusable components, such as controls, color palettes, effects, and text styles. Typography is an important part of it as it defines a text style library and conveys the most valuable and powerful...