I'm Valentin, a Product Designer with roots in game development.

HR leaders can’t see the gap between what employees claim they can do and what they actually demonstrate.

The evidence is scattered across manager notes, review cycles, and gut instinct. When a gap threatens a strategic goal, or a hidden strength goes unnoticed, building the case for action means assembling it by hand.

Leaders only trust workforce data when employees can answer honestly.

Three HR leader interviews, secondary research, and six competitors in workforce analytics came down to four insights.

Two people in HR leadership, with different jobs to do.

Meredith RyboltChief Human Resources Officer. Defends budget asks with data.

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Steven AndersonPeople Business Partner. Catches workforce problems before they grow.

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A briefing, not a dashboard.

Leeg WI reports conclusions instead of numbers. It measures the gap between what a workforce claims and what it demonstrates, holds that gap against the organization’s goals, and names the ones at risk. Hidden strengths surface the same way.

Testing changed the product more than any single design decision did.

Two rounds of user testing took task completion from 66% to 89%, and the fixes behind that were plain ones: reworked navigation, and every core metric renamed to match the language HR leaders already use. A clear label can do more for a user than a new feature.

I also explored a dark mode for the product.The Vitals screen on a dark surface

HR leaders check workforce data daily, so I tested how the layout and the purple accent hold up in the dark. The status badges had to survive the switch: Strong Opportunity, Emerging Risk, and Critical Risk each carry meaning, so they must stay distinct at a glance.

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Venue websites have been pushed to the edges of the fan’s buying journey.

Fans find shows on social media, buy tickets on Ticketmaster, and increasingly get planning answers from AI search summaries that draw on the venue’s own content. What’s left for the venue site is a reference page people check for the bag policy. That does little for the revenue venues depend on, like parking, premium seating, food and beverage, and sponsorships.

Why are venue sites being left out of the customer shopping experience?

Venue sites get left out of the shopping path because each step that matters commercially happens somewhere else. I traced five findings to the business problem each one creates, then to the features that could answer it. Two made the cut for a three-week sprint.

A page that looks like Kia.

I studied Kia’s own product and brand pages and the Kia Center logo lockups, then distilled them into a four color palette for the rebuild.

Four products had already solved a piece of this.

Two for answering a question in context, two for helping people find their way around a place.

How might we make the venue site the most useful and trusted place to plan a visit, so that traffic turns into revenue the venue can measure?

Three weeks was the right amount of pressure.

Working against a real, public site meant the problems were there to be found, not invented. A short sprint forced me to pick the two features that mattered most, and building it myself meant every decision had to survive a real browser. Here’s what I’d build next.

Video in the hero slot.A hover-to-play clip, with the still as the poster frame

The hero is the page’s largest, most emotional space, and today it’s a still image. A few seconds of crowd noise and lighting, playing only on hover, sells the night in a way a photo can’t.

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Images inside the smart search results.An answer with a picture from the official venue page

Cited text is accurate but not always the fastest way to understand a place. Bag policy, entry gates, and concession stands are easier to act on with a picture, pulled from the same official pages the answer already cites.

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M1 automates investing, but can’t tell users whether any of it is working toward something real.

Wealthfront and Betterment already lean into guided planning. Without it, M1 risks losing the users who open the app just to check they haven’t lost money, and who want some reassurance alongside the automation.

Progress only feels real when it’s tied to a life goal.

An audit of M1, a benchmark against competitors, and six interview sessions shaped three insights.

Someone who invests consistently, with no way to tell if it’s enough.

Alex29, Product Marketing Manager. Intermediate investor.

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Track progress against the goal, not the market.

Users set a goal, then make each decision behind it: account type, contribution, timeframe. Education lives inside the flow, so confidence grows without M1 stepping into a fiduciary role, and “am I on track?” finally has a real answer.

Couples share the money tools, but skip the conversation.

Apps like Monarch Money and Honeydue show couples the same numbers in nicer charts. None ask what they’re saving toward, or whether they agree. Money arguments are the strongest single predictor of divorce, and more than half of married couples never had a real money conversation before marrying.

Meuus doesn’t replace those tools. It sits next to them and gives the numbers some meaning.

Couples want to talk about money, but need structure to start.

I interviewed four couples who already shared at least one financial tool, both partners together.

Two halves of a couple who rarely show up the same way.

The partner who avoids the topic, and the partner quietly carrying it alone. The gap between them is the tension the game is built to defuse.

Maya31, Brand Strategist. The Avoider.

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Jordan34, Operations Manager. The Sole Planner.

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Turn the hard conversation into a low stakes game.

Partners draw a prompt card on a real topic, respond with an emotion instead of a paragraph, and compare answers. Nobody has to bring money up, and nobody gets blamed for starting. Enough cards reveal a money personality for each partner, something they can say out loud instead of a label that feels like a diagnosis.

Validating the problem early made every later decision easier to defend.

When I cut a planned feature or renamed the money types, I had interview evidence to point at instead of a preference to argue for.