Building in Public: How the ChatFin Community is Shaping AI UX
Analyzing the engagement on our Figma resources and what it tells us about the rising demand for better financial tools.
At ChatFin, "building in public" is more than a marketing slogan; it is our product development strategy. By releasing our design assets and code to the community before the full platform was even generally available, we created a feedback loop that has shaped our roadmap.
The numbers speak for themselves. Our "Chatfin Website" Figma file has seen 18 usages and consistent downloads, signaling a strong interest in our design philosophy. This engagement tells us that the market is ready for a modern financial aesthetic.
The Demand for Clean Finance
Finance software has historically been ugly. Dark grey spreadsheets, clunky menus, and dense data tables. Our community files, which feature a "white-themed," airy, and professional UI, have resonated because they break this mold.
We learned that modern finance teams want tools that look like consumer apps but perform like enterprise-grade systems. They want the "Stripe-ification" of their internal ERP dashboards.
Listening to the Designers
By monitoring how other designers use our assets—remixing our components, adapting our layouts—we get free user research. We saw designers specifically pulling our "Use Cases" and "Partners" sections, indicating that clarity in explaining complex financial value propositions is a major pain point.
This insight led us to refine how our own AI agents present their findings. Clarity became our north star metrics.
Aligning UX with Product Value
The "Chatfin Website" template maps directly to our core value proposition: automating the office of the CFO. When the community adopts this template, they are implicitly validating our information architecture.
It confirms that structuring a finance platform around "Products" (Agents) and "Use Cases" (Workflows) makes sense to the end-user, rather than structuring it around database tables (like legacy ERPs do).
Community-Led Growth
This open approach transforms users into advocates. Instead of selling to a cold market, we are building with a community of designers and developers who already understand our visual language and architectural decisions.
We are committed to releasing more "building blocks" of financial AI, ensuring that as we grow, the entire ecosystem grows with us.
Conclusion
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