Case Study · Fintech · 2022

YELDO —
real estate
for professionals.

Designed a B2B2C investment marketplace from scratch — turning complex institutional deal flows into a clear, trustworthy experience for verified investors.

RoleUX/UI Designer
DurationOct 2022 – Feb 2025
PlatformWeb
IndustryFintech · Real Estate
YELDO cover — Real Estate Investments platform
About & Goal

A marketplace for institutional investors — built from zero.

YELDO needed a completely new website and marketplace platform — a digital environment where verified institutional investors could discover and access exclusive real estate deal flow with confidence.

The primary objective was an intuitive, functional product that offered easy access, data clarity, and a secure onboarding and validation flow compliant with financial regulation.

The Challenge

Complex finance.
Simple experience.

Institutional real estate investment is inherently complex — legal compliance, regulatory validation, multi-tranche deal structures, and dense financial data. The challenge: make all of this feel accessible without losing rigour.

"We had to build trust with sophisticated investors while making the platform intuitive for those less familiar with digital tools."

Challenge 01

Regulatory compliance in UX

Every investor required verification against MiFID II standards. The onboarding flow had to be compliant, thorough — and still feel seamless.

Challenge 02

Mixed digital literacy

Users ranged from 25-year-old digital natives to 60+ year-old institutional investors with limited tech familiarity. One interface, very different mental models.

Challenge 03

Dense financial information

Each deal had IRR, maturity, LTV, tranche type, legal docs and property data. Presenting all of it without overwhelming users was the core design problem.

Challenge 04

Zero existing design system

Starting from a blank canvas with a dev team already in motion — building a reusable component library that could scale without creating bottlenecks.

YELDO screens overview — dashboard and deal pages

Platform screens — dashboard, deal detail, investment highlights

User Analysis

Four distinct profiles.

Age 60+

Institutional Investor Senior

Experienced investor, limited tech familiarity. Financial wisdom is high — digital comfort is not. Needs clarity over feature richness.

Age 25–39

Young Investor

Digital native, manages finances via apps and platforms. Expects responsive, polished interfaces and fast onboarding.

Age 40–59

Middle-aged Investor

Technologically comfortable, accustomed to investment platforms. Values data density and professional presentation.

Age 25–30

Internal Company Staff

Admin users who manage listings, verify investors, and keep the marketplace current. Power users who need efficiency over hand-holding.

Design Process

Double Diamond.
All five phases.

The marketplace screens were designed to provide an engaging, data-rich experience — optimising information visualisation for institutional investors while keeping cognitive load low.

01

Empathise

  • Competitor analysis
  • User surveys
  • User interviews
02

Define

  • Personas analysis
  • Jobs to be done
  • User journey map
03

Ideate

  • Brainstorm
  • Information architecture
  • User flow
04

Prototype

  • Wireframes
  • Hi-Fi design
  • UI Kit
05

Deliver

  • Project presentation
  • Ready for dev
Design process — about and goal, Double Diamond

Design process — goal setting & double diamond framework

Visual Design

Dark. Bold. Institutional.

YELDO's visual language needed to signal trust, exclusivity, and financial authority. Deep charcoal backgrounds, a signature Blue-Violet accent, and restrained white space communicate professionalism without coldness.

Eerie Black
#222222
Blue-Violet
#8334CD
Pale Purple
#E7D6F7
White Smoke
#F2F2F2
Silver
#C6C6C6
Color palette and UI screens — login, signup flows

Visual design system — onboarding screens

YELDO screens scattered mockup

Platform — scattered screen mockup

Key Flow

Onboarding &
investor qualification.

One of the most complex flows to design: a multi-step regulatory qualification survey that determines whether a user qualifies as a professional investor — or gets redirected to YELDO Crowd. Had to feel guided, not gating.

Qualification survey and onboarding flow screens

Qualification survey — full onboarding & validation flow

User analysis — four investor personas

User analysis — four distinct investor profiles

Reflection

What I took away.

YELDO taught me that designing for regulated financial products requires as much legal and business understanding as it does UX craft. Every screen had compliance implications — and every component had to carry institutional credibility.

Takeaway 01

Design systems are a team sport

Building a component library from zero while the dev team was already shipping taught me to design for handoff from day one — documentation is part of the deliverable.

Takeaway 02

Simplicity is harder in complex domains

Financial UX demands that you know the domain deeply before you can abstract it cleanly. Research time directly correlated with design quality on this project.

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