Category: UX

... it’s the exciting comradery that makes this a great initiative for all involved. It’s really motivating and great for team morale. ...Mncedi Maila, Channels & Platforms Lead at Standard Bank Picture this: a day of getting ...Read More

The Agile approach has in many organisations become the expected way of working. There have been many articles and books around the challenges of designing in an agile environment. When building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) there are ...Read More

It was that time of the year again for UX designers and engineers to down tools from the usual day-to-day work items and spend 24 hours for the Caplin Hack Day. The theme this year was ‘Simplify and ...Read More

Periodically, the whole of the engineering team have a Hack Day at Caplin. Teams of up to four have 24 Hours straight to produce something new, innovative and cool. This time we decided to produce a new way of visualising ladders ...Read More

FX Tiles provide the ability to trade and view the rates of FX currency pairs. The Caplin FX Tiles are configurable, allowing users to set both the volume and the settlement or value date of the Tiles, to subscribe to relevant ...Read More

FX Tiles provide two main pieces of functionality, the ability to see live rates for a certain Currency Pair Volume Bands and the ability to Trade quickly. It is this first piece of functionality that most users will ...Read More

Twice a year Caplin developers, designers and business analysts have the opportunity to down tools on their projects and work on an idea or concept of their own during a 24 hour Hack Day. The theme for this Hack Day was ...Read More

Several companies are manufacturing mobile phones and tablets with similar or even superior features to those of Apple. Why then are new Apple product releases preceded by rumours and media frenzy and followed by long queues at their stores? A plastic ...Read More

What follows is effectively a list of things I wanted to follow up on after hearing at day one of Interact 2014. I then put more words in between the links to contextualise them and share my thoughts. ...Read More

As another year of 'FOWA' has drawn to a close, here are my thoughts from the event on the host of interesting topics covered by the excellent speakers. Bruce Lawson evangelises ...Read More