Does Tab Candy signal the slow death of the tab? It's a strange turn of phrase, but as we do more and more online keeping tabs on everything and segregating areas of interest is becoming a more and more frustrating and complicated task when ...Read More
Tag: User Experience
With design agility must come design ability
This is an interesting post by Anders Ramsay. I definitely think design agility is an important skill, I think it goes without saying that if you ...Read More
Freebie for Designers
Hello Designers! Tired of doing the same things again and again? Why not use my personal Lazy Kit, filled with useful time savers and ‘best practice’ principles. Give it a download and try it on your next website ...Read More
Sencha Touch – mobile web development framework
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
Optimise for Portable Devices
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
SPA2010 conference redux
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
Duncan: On The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover
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
Narrative Journey Maps
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
Ignoring UX could cost you
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
Livescribe – as tool for Contextual Inquiry
Livescribe is a tool I’ve been using for a year or so now within the UX team here at Caplin, to capture notes from design meetings and ongoing UCD contextual inquiries. It’s a ...Read More