How do you find a threat
in a million anonymous posts?

Sixgill actor profile with activity heatmap and Social Network chart on a tablet, between search results screens, with post volume, actor card and network cards
Summary

Sixgill monitors dark-web forums and marketplaces so threat analysts can spot leaked data and early signs of an attack. It came to Uniq UI with nothing: no product, no brand. I led the design concept and the brand, designed the core screens, then handed the rest of the platform to my team.

The raw material was a flood of unstructured posts, written by people who do not want to be found. The job was to show analysts the trend, not the pile.

01

Summary first, posts second

An actor's profile leads with patterns: when they post, who they talk to, what they write about. The posts come after. Open one and you get the thread, the metadata and a private note.

Actor profile with activity heatmap and post list
Post detail with threaded replies
02

Too much to read, so show the shape

Every search returns hundreds of posts. Volume over time, a category split and keyword filters sit beside the results, so the trend is visible before anyone reads a single post.

Search results with volume chart, category filter and alert creation
03

Who is talking to whom

The Social Network chart maps a threat actor's links to other actors and forum handles. It was the hardest visual problem on the project, and it became the platform's signature, the screen both analysts and Sixgill's leadership loved most.

Force-directed Social Network graph of a threat actor
04

From a search to the security stack

Any search can become an alert. Alerts arrive sorted by severity and route to email, SMS or a STIX feed, so findings reach the tools a security team already runs.

Notifications grouped by severity
Alert group with email, SMS and STIX routing
05

What it led to

Sixgill launched with a complete brand and platform designed from a blank page. The network chart became the thing people recognized it by.

0 → 1brand and platform from nothing
Signaturethe Social Network chart
Scaledconcept set by me, extended by my team
What I learned

One right visual can carry a product. People remembered Sixgill by its network chart.

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