[ Case study ]
IMS Streaming News
Real-time streaming news inside Dow Jones' OpenFin IMS workspace - an always-on, entity-aware headline stream tuned for financial professionals.
- Client
- Dow Jones - IMS
- Role
- UX Architect
- Year
- 2025
- Disciplines
- Product Design, UX Design
Live
Always-on streaming news experience
[ Information architecture ]
Live stream
- Player
- Now playing
Headlines
- Breaking
- Latest
Sections
- Markets
- World
- Business
Confidentiality notice
This work spans active platform strategy, shared AI capabilities, and multiple product surfaces. To respect that, this case study stays intentionally high-level, focusing on the cross-brand design problem, platform principles, and reusable outcomes rather than brand-specific implementation details.
Financial professionals live inside their market terminals, where a few seconds of latency on a headline can move a decision. IMS Streaming News is the real-time news module inside Dow Jones' OpenFin IMS workspace - a continuous, scannable stream of market-moving headlines embedded directly in the trader's desktop environment. I led the UX architecture and design for version 2.0.
Overview
Streaming News lives as a module in the Dow Jones OpenFin workspace alongside Portfolio, Top News, Barron's, WSJ, and alerts. The 2.0 work reframed it from a simple ticker into a focused real-time reading surface, with entity-aware headlines, personalisation, and settings tuned for professionals who keep it open all day. As UX Architect I owned the information architecture, the interaction model, and the high-fidelity design.
The challenge
A streaming feed has to do two opposing things at once: never stop moving, yet never overwhelm. For a professional watching it in their peripheral vision all day, density, scan-ability, and the ability to act on a headline without leaving the stream are everything.
- Keep a continuous real-time stream readable, not noisy, at a glance
- Let a market-moving headline connect to the company and price it concerns, in place
- Fit a dense terminal context (OpenFin) without breaking the trader's workflow
- Give power users control over language, time, format, and what they follow
[ Protected layer ]
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