Case study // Vela Markets
Operator console for a 24/7 digital asset desk
A high-density trading operations console built for 12-hour shifts: keyboard-first, colour-blind safe, zero layout shift.
Incident MTTR
−63%
Frame budget
8.3ms
Stack
React · Canvas · Web Workers · Radix · Playwright
01 — Challenge
Operators tracked positions across six tools and a spreadsheet. Alert fatigue meant genuine breaches were acknowledged an average of 11 minutes late.
02 — Architecture
The order book and exposure grid render on canvas, offloaded to workers for a locked 120fps.
Severity is encoded in shape and position, not colour alone, for deuteranopia-safe triage.
Every surface is reachable by keyboard through a single command palette.
03 — Outcome
Mean time to resolve fell from 19 to 7 minutes, and desk headcount stayed flat through a 4× volume increase.