Category: UX

At Caplin we have been using various UI widgets from Ext JS (available from the renamed Sencha company) within Caplin Trader for a couple of years.The Ext JS widgets that we have used have been an excellent complement to ...Read More

Platformability is now optimised for Portable Devices. (Give it a go on your mobile!) As much as everyone loves big pictures for blog backgrounds or ...Read More

I missed the start of SPA2010 on Sunday, I knew it was going to be a heavy week and I needed some time for the family :) Sorry Phil/Adam.Monday started with the opening plenary, I think it was good, I'm ...Read More

So... We’re all set for our ‘Persona Driven Development Workshop’ at SPA2010, right? OK – well... nearly. Sarah has done a really nice presentation. But... the workshop materials are not entirely done done. I’m ...Read More

Check out this great article from Dominique Leca over at UX Magazine: The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover It includes some concepts from IDEO who submitted a redesign proposal ...Read More

Thanks @ian_alderson for being the World's No.1 #VeryBestEver @CaplinTech guest tweeter!! ~ you leave me with a big hole to fill :) #OK an intro: as well as #RIA ...Read More

The UX team at Caplin are always looking for ways to enhance our Usage Centered Design (UCD) process and tools because we realise the importance of UCD in helping us to uncover the pain points of our users. ...Read More

CaplinTech blog latest: Tammy Sharpe: How we survived WAgile: http://bit.ly/ctidHe #CaplinTech blog update: @ian_alderson on #JavaScript Variable Naming Convention http://bit.ly/9SnUFi #yam #Interesting cross-browser technique for ...Read More

Yesterday you may have seen the @CaplinTech tweet about Zed Shaw's essay which complains that programmers too often muddle the concepts of indirection and abstraction. In particular he bemoans that this confusion often results in programmers designing bad APIs. ...Read More

This is why it's all about the UX and not the UI.  Those in the business of developing front-end trading applications - take note. You have got to look beyond the graphics and explore the interaction while ...Read More