A homepage that opens with the firm, not with this week’s market commentary.
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A restrained, line-driven rework of a 90-year-old financial institution's public site. Same voice, same navy, far fewer boxes.
Morgan Stanley's site carries an enormous amount of material: research, podcasts, eight business lines, careers, investor relations. The content is strong. The surface it sits on has accumulated cards, panels and competing calls to action over the years.
This concept keeps the institution's existing navy, its editorial voice and its information architecture, and rebuilds the visual layer around a single idea: a ruled grid. Hairlines do the work that boxes and shadows used to do. Nothing is added that a line cannot already imply.
The homepage opens on a single piece of research rather than a carousel. Below it, the eight business lines are listed as a ruled index — scannable in one pass, and the same list the navigation uses.
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At Morgan Stanley, clients come first. We help individuals, families, institutions and governments raise, manage and distribute the capital they need to achieve their goals.
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How donor-advised funds can create new funding opportunities for mission-driven startups.
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Most visitors arrive wanting to know whether Morgan Stanley works with someone like them, and how to start. The page leads with that, then explains the offer as a ruled list of services.
We help people, businesses and institutions build, preserve and manage wealth so they can pursue their financial goals.
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The About section holds the firm's values, history, leadership and locations. Here it opens on a single navy statement, then unfolds as a ruled index — five values, a horizontal timeline, and the sub-pages listed plainly.
Everything we do at Morgan Stanley is guided by five core values.
On small screens the grid collapses to a single column and the rules stay. Navigation opens as a full-height ruled index rather than a stack of accordions.
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