Every project asks the same question: How do you help a human being make a high-stakes, irreversible capital decision when trust is the primary constraint? Primary examples are shipped Tier-1. Production-grounded studies and true concepts follow in the catalog.
Compliance infrastructure in the design system. ACY Securities
Digital tools that amplify the advisor, not replace them. Christie's
Legible FIX API integration. Trust through transparency. ACY Connect
Clarity under market-data density. Finlogix
Named-client production: ACY Securities, Christie's, ACY Connect, Finlogix, LogixTrader, TradingCup. Design systems sit after the shipped work — they are the token layer those surfaces run on, not the hiring argument. Production-grounded studies and true concepts are held separately below.
Complete rebrand and digital transformation of ASIC-regulated brokerage. Led UX, compliance systems, and multi-country rollout.
Designed a relationship-first digital platform for ultra-high-net-worth ($5M–$80M) real estate clients. Translated 260 years of brand authority into a digital editorial experience — where digital tools enhance broker relationships, not replace them. This became the empirical baseline for UHNW digital behaviour that directly informed the Xanthos Private Bank concept.
Designed the documentation system and credential infrastructure for ACY's institutional FIX 4.4 API — the B2B layer serving prime brokers and liquidity providers. A 7-page information architecture governing how 5 user types experience the integration journey, from PM/BD to Market Data Engineer.
The first product I built end-to-end at ACY — a data-density redesign of a professional market-analytics platform. Modular widget workspace, full Chart 2.0 indicator suite, brand and light/dark token system. A controlled study (n=15, paired t(14)=8.92) measured time-to-insight 4.2s → 2.5s.
Multi-audience web trading platform — retail, IB, hedge-fund and institutional surfaces on one system, with a MiFID II RTS 27/28 best-execution evidence layer. Shipped and live; a measured order-placement study (n=15 paired) recorded time-to-trade 8.2s → 2.9s.
Designed a Risk-Calibration Engine for social trading — not a leaderboard. Solved Loss Aversion through pre-allocation expectation setting. Reduced time-to-first-copy from 4.7 to 1.2 days. Cut rage-disconnects by 41% via Progressive Disclosure of Risk.
251 live component demos — the token-driven system every project on this page is built on. AI-native (ships as an MCP server for agents), runs on-prem for data residency, and spans trading, compliance, AML, AI-agent tooling, distributed clusters, and cross-platform / cross-browser rendering.
The B2C half of the same argument. 190 categories across 17 domains — onboarding, commerce, social, media, growth, trust & safety, AI & agents, and spatial & motion — each carrying a platform anchor (Apple HIG, Material 3, WCAG 2.2, App Store / Play review, GDPR, COPPA, FTC, EU AI Act) instead of a financial regulator. Ships tokens and contracts as MCP-readable JSON, same as its institutional sibling.
Not a concept — since late 2024 this is how I work. But the differentiator isn't using AI; it's the layer that governs it. Agents produce, the harness governs: Ed Agent (a human-gated agent harness — 9-stage lifecycle, red-team, grounding, iron-law halt, 15 MCP tools) and eds-mcp (my design system served as an MCP server — 65 component contracts). An interactive governance loop, a human-boundary register, and linked live exhibits.
TradeX, Xanthos, and Argos are production-grounded — drawn from real production work, rebuilt as independent studies with fictional brands and original IP. They are not named-client surfaces and they are not true concepts. Each ships a working artefact.
Drawn from real production work, rebuilt as an independent study with a fictional brand and original IP.
A production-grounded institutional risk dashboard, rebuilt as an independent study — based on primary research with portfolio managers. Causal intelligence overlays, liquidity stress visualization, real-time alpha attribution, and GenAI scenario stress testing. Designing the institutional dashboard that incumbent terminal platforms structurally cannot build.
Drawn from real production work, rebuilt as an independent study with a fictional brand and original IP.
A production-grounded private banking platform, rebuilt as an independent study — five interconnected flows for UHNW clients ($28M+ net worth) and their relationship managers. Portfolio dashboard, RM briefing intelligence, investment proposal acceptance, life event planning, and 5-step UHNW onboarding. B2B2C architecture where the RM is the primary tool user.
Drawn from real production work, rebuilt as an independent study with a fictional brand and original IP.
A production-grounded cross-asset AML/CFT compliance platform, rebuilt as an independent study — alert triage, investigator workspace, SAR filing, real estate compliance, and securities surveillance. Built from nearly five years of regulatory component design at ACY Securities, translated into a dedicated financial crimes context.
Aureus, ConnectX, Double-Blind, and Praxis Prime are true concepts — not production-grounded, not client work. Each is labelled as such and ships a working artefact, not a mockup.
True concept — research-grounded original IP, not a client project. Ships a working artefact.
Translating UHNW private-banking fiduciary logic into a retail mobile experience. Four AI modules (Velocity Dashboard, Alternative Finder, Event Radar, Fiduciary Decision Room) · 31 mobile screens · working React prototype · 3 embedded interactive demos · full 90-day persona journey. The dimension-reduction strike against B2C — built for Stripe / PayPal Wealth / Robinhood-tier interview presentation.
True concept — research-grounded original IP, not a client project. Ships a working artefact.
A CRM designed at editorial register rather than enterprise CRM register. Eleven screens, eight named AI agents, four explicit autonomy tiers (Ambient → Co-pilot → Assertive → Autonomous). The relationship graph IS the page; pipeline is a flow chart, not a kanban; AI observes and never directs. Built as a single self-contained React bundle — runs from disk, no build step.
True concept — research-grounded original IP, not a client project. Ships a working artefact.
An adversarial AI layer for UHNW relationship management. The RM commits their independent risk read first — sealed with SHA-256. AI reveals its cold read second. Every divergence requires a documented human resolution before the client call. Part of the Xanthos Private Bank ecosystem — the layer the client never sees but always feels.
True concept — research-grounded original IP, not a client project. Ships a working artefact.
Unified Front-to-Back prime brokerage platform tracking a 2M-share block trade across execution (Smart Order Router · VWAP/TWAP/POV), risk (cross-margin stress-test slider), and T+1 settlement (FIX/SWIFT Diff Viewer).
Open-source libraries, consumer products, and the remaining production surface (LogixPanel). Flagship shipped work now leads the catalog above.
Zero-dependency cosmic animation + UI library — 60 canvas animations and a tokenized UI kit behind one API, ~15 kB gzipped, accessible, and AI-consumable via its own MCP server. v3.2.0, MIT.
Solo Library + API · Zero-Dep · MCP-Served · CI + Tests · MIT
Ai Spheres — zero-dependency Web Component: a dotted 3D sphere with 20 hand-tuned motion states (listening, thinking, searching, coding, complete…) for AI and agent interfaces. Reduced-motion safe, theme-aware. v1.0.0, MIT.
Solo Component + API · Zero-Dep · A11y Contract · 20 States · MIT
Production-ready React component library architected for scale. Modular UI systems, accessibility-first design, and enterprise-grade documentation.
Component System · Accessibility-First · ~40% UI Dev Speedup
Algorithm-assisted portfolio analysis platform — risk models, calculators, and intelligent insights. Complex workflow orchestration and ML integration.
AI Trust Architecture · Cognitive Load Reduction · Transparency-First
B2B2C marketplace connecting pet service vendors (grooming, boarding, vet) to pet owners across Japan — built from 7 months of Tokyo field research to live MVP. Complete product ownership: architecture, design, engineering, launch.
B2B2C Architecture · 0-to-1 Market Execution · Full-Stack Engineering
A LINE bot "second-hand strategist" — photograph an item, get a fair value with calibrated confidence, a sell-timing alert, and a channel recommendation with ready-to-paste listing material. No commission, no custody of money. Solo 0-to-1 build, live on LINE in Japan.
Designed Honesty · Fiduciary Alignment · Consumer AI · Japan Localisation
The internal operating system of a regulated broker — not just a CRM. Client lifecycle, corporate B2B onboarding, treasury and money movement, IB / affiliate distribution, compliance and team RBAC — owned across 11 countries for ~3 years. The back-office inside the back-office.
4.5min → 72s lookupCampaign and brand work inside the ACY ecosystem — listed here as context, not as hero leverage. Flagship production sits in Tier 1.
Self-contained deployments served from edwson.com sub-paths and live at acy.com — campaign microsites, open-source design system docs, and interactive prototypes. These are working products, not mockups.
How these ship · the Ed Agent pipeline
These campaign surfaces are produced through an AI-augmented pipeline: a COO brief is routed by my Ed Agent through a nine-agent team — requirements, ideation, regulation, rules, design (me + Figma MCP), review, and release. Agents handle ingestion, analysis, and effort-triage; I keep design judgment, and every surface clears a human review and sign-off before it ships. Velocity on the campaign lane — not autonomy. See the operating model →
Process, compliance, research, and live prototypes — the load-bearing pages behind the case studies.
For recruiters & hiring teams
If you are evaluating Ed for a senior product designer role in institutional finance, the hire page lays out nearly five years of regulated work, the eight regulatory rewrites absorbed, the five product surfaces shipped, and the categories of companies the work fits.