The education strand
NEOMAAA Academy
The Academy started life as a separate product with its own site and courses. The site never got past draft, while the weekly webinars ran and every speaker needed a deck.
- Web design
- Presentations
Part of the NEOMAAA ecosystemWhat it was
NEOMAAA is an international prop firm, and the Academy was the teaching arm: a webinar every week, plus recorded courses put together on the side.
We designed it as a fourth branch, next to futures and crypto: its own place in the shared navigation, its own colour, its own lockup. The page is built like its neighbours, the content isn’t, because people come here to learn.
It never made it to launch. We built the draft, then the whole strand was folded into Trader’s Hub and the page never shipped. I’m showing it as it stands, unfinished.
The page in full
The draft as one sheet, so you can see how it’s put together. You’re not meant to read it here, the structure is the point.
The hero
A promise about a career. Teaching talks to people differently than a prop firm does.
Course carousel
Courses right on the first screen, before any talk about the company. Someone who came to learn needs the catalogue.
About the strand
Three figures: 83 countries, thirty thousand taught, monthly rewards. The geography is shared with the ecosystem, the rest is its own.
The catalogue
A topic filter and cards. A card carries the level, the author, the duration, the skills gained and the languages as flags: a course doesn’t run in one language.
Mentors
A strip of teachers, each with their own topics and courses. In education you’re buying the person, so it gets a section to itself.
Testimonials
Student stories and a Trustpilot score. The same device as on the trading branches, and here it carries more weight.
Video from events
Vertical clips from the meet-ups. Proof that there are living people and offline events behind the teaching.
Schedule
The same course cards, but as a calendar. The catalogue answers what is taught, the schedule answers when to come.
Questions
Common questions about the rules and how this differs from an ordinary challenge.
Support
Six channels in one screen, as on crypto: WhatsApp, Telegram, email, live chat, phone, support centre.
The footer
Navigation, legal links and its own lockup: NEOMAAA Academy, separate from Funded.
Speaker decks
Every week a trader or someone from the market spoke, and each of them got a deck of their own: a cover with the name and the topic, then the slides that carry the content.
This was a conveyor belt. New speaker every week, new topic, fixed date to hit. The template set the grid and the type, but the cover got rebuilt every time, because it carries somebody’s face, and a face won’t just drop into a ready-made frame.
The Juan David course
On top of the weekly webinars there were recorded courses planned. We built one of them in full: eight lessons, around three hundred slides, all for one lecturer.
The material turned up however it turned up. The speaker sent his own version, usually thrown together in a hurry and in Spanish. Neither I nor the team speak Spanish, so the order was always the same: translate, work out what he actually meant, and only then start designing.
A screenshot of the board, so you don’t have to take the number on trust: nine rows, one per lesson.
Course slides
What it looks like up close. Twenty-four spreads out of the course: lesson covers, diagrams, chart breakdowns.
Before and after
What the speaker sent, and what ended up in the course. Three cases that came up again and again: no design at all, a design lifted from someone else, the wrong photograph.
Notice that it’s all in Spanish. Before drawing anything we had to translate the slide, work out what it was about, and only then decide how it should look.
All of it was made in Canva, which isn’t a designer’s tool: you can’t get the layers, the fonts or the grid out of it, so reworking a slide nearly always meant building it again from nothing.
No design at all. Text on a white page. Translate, work out the meaning, build the slide from scratch.
There was a design, but not ours. Purple instead of blue, a script face, captions across the face. Rebuilt in the Academy language.
The wrong photograph. A school-age snapshot of a man introduced as an expert with eight years behind him. The slide was rebuilt entirely.