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Perspectives
Role: UX Researcher, Product Designer
Tools: Figma
Year: 2026
Perspectives is a human‑first platform where people post a perspective or scroll through everyone else's. It's built like a trading platform, except nobody puts in money. What moves is a perspective's value, a live number driven entirely by how much attention it earns.
Save it, share it, and its value climbs, a green tick up, same as a stock that's having a good week. Scroll past it, and it drifts. There's no portfolio to fund, no real currency at risk. The only thing anyone is trading is honesty for attention, and the market decides what's worth holding onto.
The hypothesis
If a perspective's worth is visible the way a stock's worth is visible, honesty becomes something people can watch rise, not just something they say once and lose track of.
THE MARKET MECHANIC
No wallet, no shares, no real currency. Just a number that reacts to attention the way a ticker reacts to trade volume.
Each card carries a live ticker: a category, a trend arrow, a seven‑day sparkline of daily viewers, and a value score. The bars are literally that, one bar per day, sized according to how many people saw the perspective that day. Save or share it, and tomorrow's bar (and the value score) moves.
Problem
When people are stuck, they want a real human point of view, not a framework, and not a chatbot.
Social media rewards loud opinions over honest ones. Pseudonymous forums push toward performative confidence. And there was no visible signal for "this resonated" beyond a like count buried under an algorithm. The product question: what would an honest, anonymous perspective look like if its worth were as legible as a stock price
Research
16 weeks of listening before a single screen got designed.
01
16 discovery interviews (45–60 min) with adults 22–35 actively navigating a meaningful life question
02
171 diary entries from a 2-week diary study with 10 of the interview participants
03
13 competitor platforms audited across 3 categories: anonymous opinion apps, location-aware platforms, and curated daily content
04
28-question survey, n=210, across 14 cities, pressure-testing qualitative findings at scale
79%
would share a perspective anonymously they wouldn’t share under their name
68%
said location context makes a perspective feel more relevant
61%
have a daily piece of content they return to for perspective
n=210
survey respondents, spanning 14 cities
Key Findings
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01
Anonymity unlocks honesty, but it needs a visible payoff to feel worth it
Participants wanted proof their honesty landed somewhere, not just a silent post into a void.
02
Location is a relevance signal, not a privacy threat.
People wanted city‑level context, "they know what rent looks like here", not GPS precision.
03
The daily ritual already exists. It just doesn't have a home.
61% of diary participants had one, scattered across newsletters, accounts, and group chats.
04
Topic decks work as identity signals, not just filters.
Choosing a deck felt like self‑selecting into a community, not configuring an app.
05
Volume is the enemy of quality on anonymous platforms.
The competitive audit showed that once volume scales on unstructured platforms, the lowest‑effort content wins.
App flow
ANATOMY OF A CARD
Six words of context, a live value, and a week of trade history, nothing else.
Each card carries a live ticker: a category, a trend arrow, a seven‑day sparkline of daily viewers, and a value score. The bars are literally that, one bar per day, sized according to how many people saw the perspective that day. Save or share it, and tomorrow's bar (and the value score) moves.
FROM RESEARCH TO DESIGN
Five decisions, each traceable back to a finding above.
More coming soon!
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