Category: UX

Taking down bad UX! Vanessa Carey joined Caplin’s fast growing UX Design team in November 2010. With a background in both product design and graphic design, Vanessa is already making big contributions to successful ...Read More

As a User Experience Designer at Caplin Systems, I am faced with the challenge of translating complex financial data into something quite lively and exciting on a daily basis.  With that in mind, I recently had the pleasure of watching a ...Read More

Duncan Brown has been Head of UX Design at Caplin since 2007. Collaborating across Caplin with business and engineering, Duncan has defined and implemented a process to ensure that users have a better and more engaging experience with ...Read More

Wireframing is the way a UX designer expresses their ideas by showing layout, navigation and task flows in a skeleton of a web interface. For a better idea on wireframes, check out the ...Read More

At Caplin, we build very complex web applications for financial trading, and we are often asked for advice about which of the many JavaScript toolkits out there are the best. Embarking on developing a web application can be ...Read More

How to innovate according to Steven Johnson... "Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down; but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies, frequent coffee houses and other liquid networks; follow ...Read More

Ok...I like gimmicks as much as the next guy, but i feel like there are some major issues completely overlooked by this Hollywood bandwagon... ...Read More

I am starting to get a little frustrated on the volumes of tweets and blogs I am reading about UX, mainly because my vision and what we are doing here at  Caplin gets watered down through most people's myopic view of ...Read More

If companies are thinking about doing more “innovative thinking”, there is a lot of supporting material to provide evidence this is the right way to go – literature, studies, articles and examples out there that focus on innovation rather than maximising ...Read More

Thanks to Danny Hope et al for arranging UX Brighton and putting on some inspiring speakers. Excellent decision to move the keynote speaker Rory Sutherland to the end, I certainly walked away from the conference with my ...Read More