UX Design by Rebecca LeVine
Goldman Sachs Marquee
In July 2024, I rejoined Goldman Sachs, this time with the task of implementing the firm’s new brand on the Marquee platform. Marquee consists of a suite of applications used by institutional and corporate clients to navigate global markets: the platform’s features range from read-only content (articles and reports) to interactive visualizations and risk analysis tools to trading solutions. All of these would need to be recreated, and in some cases redesigned, in the firm’s new design system.
WORK OVERVIEW
High touch component library.
My first priority was high touch components: headers, footers, navigation, utility menus, grids, modals, and cards. The new design system offered versions of all of these, but they weren’t one-to-one with the particular needs of Marquee. My task was to design built-for-purpose versions of each component while maintaining consistency with the firmware designs. To do so, I gathered requirements by auditing each application and interviewing stakeholders on each feature team, then iterating until I reached a flexible but consistent design. From there, I created and published a Marquee-specific design library in Figma, accessible to and richly annotated for both designers and developers to make use of and build the components. View the case study (password required).
Functional enhancements and net-new features.
Once the high touch components were complete, my team was able to apply and customize them to the many features of Marquee, creating high fidelity mockups and prototypes of each application. In some cases, the app required only a lift-and-shift to the new brand, but in many instances, we seized the opportunity to propose functional changes: improving usability, applying design best practices, modernizing outdated interfaces, and addressing inter-app inconsistencies. I also took on the design of new features, including a more robust Profile page and a Notifications and Activity center: in both cases, some individual feature teams had built versions of these tools, but because I was designing for Marquee as a whole, I was able to create unified, platform-wide tools.
Knowledge sharing and design leadership.
Of all the divisions within Goldman Sachs, Marquee was one of the first to implement the new design system. As such, it made sense to share our learnings with the design teams from other parts of the firm. I presented periodically to various groups of designers, sharing not just the work I’d done but the processes I’d developed as well: much as I was building reusable but flexible Figma components, I was also developing a customizable but replicable means for the complex task of applying the new brand.
