The main intro page of the Girin Instruments site  has been changed. 

   This is because it is difficult to show the important risk weather program among company information at a glance due to the size of the main intro image of the existing website.

 Web design using visual images is effective in terms of attracting attention, but functional aspects must also be considered. The company's main development program, the Risk Weather program, which predicts stocks like the weather, should be published the main place.

 There is a risk that the existing homepage may skip over without knowing that such a program exists if the user makes a mistake with skip a scrolling . Programs that require scrolling to view are not suitable for navigation from the user's point of view.

  We need to be able to show everything in 8 seconds when a user clicks on the site and views it. If we want to show the company's most important strengths in eight seconds, the risk weather program we've developed will be the first thing. For this reason, we raised this program to a higher level and significantly reduced the size of the main intro image.

  If the above is modified, the main intro and main program can be viewed together on any screen without scrolling. 

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 ​The Girin Instruments homepage will be supplemented with content with detailed descriptions of the Risk Weather program. We will post additional updates in the future.

  Finally, I completed the design icon as a weather forecasting risk in the stock market, the software produced by Girin Instruments, INC. 

  This product was designed by dividing it into five risk levels based on the advice of related experts. It has the form of a weather forecast to predict and forecast the future. 

  The design was reviewed by dividing it into classic, modern, and animation formats, and it was finally changed to an animation format following the latest trends. Illustrator (2020 version) was used for the production program.

Financial Risk Weather program by Girin Instruments,INC (2021)

  To appeal to the image of the stock forecast, we put sunglasses on the emoticon and marked the dollar.

   The best form is the sun, and the worst condition is the Volcano. 

  The intermediate stage is divided into cloud, wind, rain, and lightning. We added an artistic feel to the clouds to differentiate them from other designs. I preferred to draw directly with a brush rather than the illustrator's pen tool to express a natural and friendly image.

  If you go to the website below, you can check the results and try the simulation yourself.

  Below is an example of registering as a product.

  We have been busy preparing to found the established Girin Institute since September. The related content is summarized and posted on my blog, Girin Institute, and the info menu's Art & Data Analysis section. For those of you who are interested in setting up a company or need motivation, I'm posting it little by little. And it is important because these records themselves will become the history of the company.​ 

  ​The original name, Girin Institute, was changed to Girin Instruments after consulting with accountants and lawyers. If the name contains "Institute", we must prove ourselves from the educational institution. However, since our direction is that education is not the main focus and focuses on software development & consulting, we decided to change the company's name from Girin institute to Girin instruments.

​ The contents of the company are mainly finance and created an art department. It is to consider art selling and future NFT business. After consulting with a legal advisory firm with 30 years of experience, we finally got the final approval and received the corporation book, as shown below. Papers in the form of awards such as a degree certificate and a seal are included. 

  In the future, we will open a business account, information such as a tax ID is required.  

  ​The design-related program I'm working on these days has already been developed right before commercialization, and we plan to start our business with this product. Below is the risk weather program for predict in stock market. 

 

 ​ It is a program that predicts the future by analyzing past data focusing on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and S&P Index etc. The difference is that it analyzes and predicts data based on academic mathematical theories and models.

 To develop the design of this program, I first had to study and understand an overview of stock and data analysis and risk management. After completing the investigation process, the level of risk was classified into levels 1-6, and I finished the design draft in a simple emoticon format. I will share the completion process again in the future.

  Every object in the world has its color. As discussed in the previous post, even in colorless and odorless data, a color symbolizes the data. So is the financial market. Just as we stop at a red light at a traffic light and cross over to a green one, color in the stock market is a kind of rule and helps us understand the meaning of data at a glance. When investors check their stock status, the first thing they do is check whether it is red or green, and then cry and laugh.

 While working on a design to visualize financial market data, I recently had an opportunity to compare US charts with Korean charts. Interestingly, each culture and location is different, so the color symbolized is also different. The colors of the US and South Korean stock markets are opposite.  

 First, in the Korean stock market, red is the color for rising stock prices and blue is for falling stocks, but the opposite is true for US stocks. An uptrend is green and a fall is red. 

 In western countries, it is said that blue or green has had a good meaning for a long time. However, in the East, for example, in China and Japan, red was preferred because it symbolizes a powerful and dynamic figure such as passion, challenge, and good fortune.

 Since Korea is also a country in the East, the stock price is rising in red. Red color tends to excite and tense people, so it is more suitable to indicate an upward index. At the same time, blue means to watch the market calmly and rationally and was applied to consider the psychological action of showing a low index.

​ For example, in Korea, when a lot of red appears on the stock situation monitor, it is said that the stock market is colored with autumn leaves. However, in Western countries, including the United States, it is a bloody  day.

 ​Occasionally I imagine what if it would be like to come to a world without art. Once all the colors of the world will disappear. Even when I wake up and look at the sky, the whole world looks achromatic. I can't feel the brilliant colors of autumn like oranges, reds, and yellows. The image of the season given by color was also dismissed. Decorations and patterns were commonly seen when wearing clothes or eating meals might go out of sight. Living in a world, people will gradually feel it. In what ways can do emotions fade away as a vapor? Even though I only imagined that beauty would vanish for a while, it was just dull and frustrating.

 There is a real-world where art doesn't seem to work. It is a world of data made up of numbers, symbols, and letters. Data is measured by what is useful and what it means, not by how beautiful it is or evokes emotions. 
 
  According to the development of the Internet and related new technologies, a lot of data is accumulated on the web. Data Analysis technology using such big data is also continuously updated. There is fierce competition within it. In particular, the stock data has not only an invisible flow but is also valuable for analysis as it is essential data closely related to the market. These data were previously only understood, analyzed, and handled by relevant experts. It was the same situation just as in the Middle Ages, some monks, clergy could read and interpret Bibles in Latin and made them available. However, the world is changing rapidly, and now the time has come for the public to look at open data, analyze it, predict a graph, and come up with a prescription. Various analysis contents are overflowing just by looking at related YouTube.

 ​In the first paragraph, I tried to draw a world without art. What role can art play in a world of data overflowing with numbers and formulas? However, even data whose color, shape, and composition do not seem important evokes various emotions when the data is expressed in a graph, and the meaning is given. Stock data does. When we look at charts that go up or down, we get mixed up. Sometimes investors cry and laugh at the green-red color. Whether the graph soars up like a mountain or moves flat, everyone pays attention to its shape.  

  ​Artists can play the role of visually and more usefully showing data analyzed based on these scientific and mathematical grounds. Artists select colors more sensitively than anyone else and explore the meaning of shapes and compositions. They know the power of color. I am well aware that every time the saturation and brightness of each color change, it can evoke certain emotions and even expand into the spiritual realm, touching people's hearts, making them feel moved and energized. So I hope that artists can participate as a coworker in the data analysis a lot.
It would be great if you could deliver comfort, energy, and sometimes even a little bit of alertness to the stock data, which is fraught with so many risks.
 
 I am currently studying R Programming, R Studio, a program that statistically analyzes stock data to visualize stock data. In the future, related contents will be posted on this blog sequentially.