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Situation: At Finlytics, I designed an animated, real-time portfolio dashboard. Engineering flagged performance risk on low-end devices and a 4-week extra build. Task: Preserve the core value—quick, at-a-glance understanding of portfolio health—while reducing complexity. Action: I ran a short design spike with the tech lead. We replaced continuous animations with state-based microinteractions, reduced real-time updates to 15-second polling, and reused existing chart components from our React/Storybook library. I usability-tested 10 customers remotely via Lookback; comprehension stayed at 92% and task time increased by only 6s. Result: Engineering cut estimated build time by 35% and avoided performance issues, while NPS for the dashboard improved from 32 to 48 after launch and support tickets for "confusing data" dropped by 41% in the first month.
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