Designing trust into an automated trading bot.
Launched, since discontinued by the team
- Role
- UI/UX Designer
- Skills
- Trading UXOnboardingDesign Systems
- Team
- 1 Designer (me)1 Frontend Developer
Overview
How do you get someone to hand a bot control of their money without losing control of the decision?
A team of 2, designing trust into every step of the AURA TradeBot experience from first simulation to live execution.
Problem
People don’t avoid trading bots because they don’t work. They avoid them because the category has trained them to be skeptical. Brokerless setups that feel like scams. Dashboards that show outcomes but never reasoning. Bots that execute trades with no way for the user to pause, adjust, or understand what just happened. The pattern is always the same: hand over your money, hope for the best, and find out later whether the bot made good decisions or terrible ones.
Trust isn’t a feature you bolt on after launch. It’s the thing that determines whether someone even gets past the landing page. For AURA TradeBot, the design challenge wasn’t making the bot smarter; it was making it legible enough that a skeptical user would give it a chance in the first place.
Constraints
A team of two: me as the designer and one frontend developer.
Final screens
Landing Page Hero
Monitoring Dashboard
The monitoring dashboard doesn’t just show profit and loss. It surfaces the bot’s reasoning: why it entered a position, what signal triggered a sell, where the user’s parameters constrained a decision it would have otherwise made.
