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Bret Victor – Creators Need an Immediate Connection

Coding the Market points to Bret Victor’s presentation, “Inventing on Principle”. The code editor for JavaScript in the presentation is very cool. Likewise Bret’s web site is just cool. Bret’s bio page...

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The iPad Train

Wall Street & Technologies article “Financial Firms Can’t Ignore iPad and Android Tablet Apps” provides insight into how the financial vertical is leverage the uptake of the iPad.  I wonder if the...

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Good Fucking Design Advice

A classic web site with clear language   The White Poster is particularly nicely worded

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Time – A Concept Often Missed in UX

One of the age old problems of designing an appropriate user interface (UX) for an application is that the inherent issues of data delivery are often forgotten due to the nature of pen and paper...

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Implied/realized Volatility Surfaces

Slide 21 of A New Framework for Analyzing Volatility Risk and Volatility Risk Premium in Each Option Contract.

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Usability Testing – Beneficial, But Rarely Done?

Interesting read over on Referly on Usability Testing.  Financial application have got a lot better over the years with regards to engaging User Experience (UX) architects to design user interfaces....

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Tweet Visualization

Whisper provide a way of visualizing collective responses, multistep information flow and spatiotemporal trends Twitter Orographies provides a real-time ticker and corresponding graphical...

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UX: From Sketch to Wireframe or Prototype? Process Disrupt

HTML has over the last time period caused some camps to ask the question of how valid wire-frames are in the HTML/CSS era.  User Interface Engineering provides Nathan Curtis views on this subject.  I’m...

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Flat Design

LayerVault provides a view on why it went down the Flat Design road.  Sacha provides a view on Google Maps, which offers a sub-style of flat design.

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UX: Responsive Design, Agile, Process – The Battle with Legacy Baggage

Brad’s The Post-PSD Era posting generated a lot of interesting comments.  Overall, I think that UX in some organization is struggling with change – change due to baggage associated with how the...

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UX Version Control

Number of product available these days: LayerVault Pixelapse Adobe Experience Manager pixelnovel Interested to see that pixelnovel is beta’ing a git version

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UX Design Libaries

UX Magazine has an interesting article on “How to Create an Enterprise UI Toolkit”.  Unsurprising to find Bootstrap referenced.  Nathan also offers a view, but this time references by pattern library...

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UX Design Library – Investment In Time

eightshapes offer an interesting PDF for “Creating a UX Deisgn Library”.  I particularly like the “How much should we invest in each part?” and the team vs recommend for Comps (pixel-perfect pages)....

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Creating a UX Component Library

Nice deck by Nathan on creating a component library.  Curious what people are using to store their component library?

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Style Guide framework

KSS and Toadstool maybe interesting to anyone who’s read the last few postings.

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Nasdaq Goes Mobile First

Interesting read over on Wall Street & Technology, “User Experience is Driving Changes to Nasdaq’s Corporate Solution Platform”. Our design focus for that platforms starts with mobile and works its...

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Mobile-first Responsive Design

Responsive design in many ways has headed down a bad road due to some of the cons highlighted in this article. Mobile-first responsive design creating an interface that addresses the constraints of...

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FX Client Services

e-FOREX April 2014 offer an interesting article on “Banks and the Buyside: New developments in electronic FX Client Services”.  Both northern and southern hemisphere banks are listed in the article,...

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