A full redesign from a monolithic interface to a modular, white-label-ready news platform, built to scale across partners, markets and cultures.
Dow Jones Newswires delivers over 16,000 headlines per day to 500K+ professional subscribers across financial services, wealth management, investment banking and online trading.
NewsPlus is the platform that brings that content to life. NewsPlus 3.0 was a full redesign: moving from a monolithic interface to a modular, white-label-ready platform built to scale across partners, markets and cultures.
The layout struggled on modern screen sizes, modules couldn't be customized independently, and there was no white-label capability to support growing partner demand.
Japanese financial professionals have fundamentally different expectations around density, white space and hierarchy. What reads as "clean" in Western design reads as empty and low-value in Japanese professional contexts. It required a full design adaptation, not just a localization pass.
Rebuilt the underlying grid to support modern monitor sizes — a flexible foundation for different module combinations, layouts and partner configurations.
Designed a library of independent, composable modules (news feeds, watchlists, calendars, market-data widgets), each configurable without affecting the rest of the layout.
Defined and shipped new drag-and-drop patterns giving users direct control of their workspace, with a consistent system of affordances, constraints and feedback states across every module type.
Embedded as product principles from the start, shaping typography, contrast, interaction states and information hierarchy throughout the full module library.
Density signals credibility in Japanese professional contexts; white space signals absence of value. I rethought layout defaults, spacing ratios, typographic scale and module density as a full cultural adaptation.
