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Further reading for Interact 2014 day 1
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....
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The role of emotions in design: Caplin’s research highlights how user...
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...
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Hackday VI: Caplin Tailor
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...
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Double Click FX Tiles
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...
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Forward Tenor Indicator
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,...
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Caplin Hack Day VII – MarketLens by McRitlain
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...
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Caplin Hack Day VII – Ninjatron Analytics
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...
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Incremental UX
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...
View ArticleThe Company of the Future: UX-driven?
At Caplin, we’ve taken a feather out of Google’s hat with our weekly Tech Talks. At Tech Talks one of our developers shares informative or inspirational videos, talks or gives a presentation on...
View ArticleComing Soon: Platformability gets a facelift!
Hello Platformability Readers, Good news—we will soon be having a facelift here with Platformability getting an entirely new, fresh look. After several years of running the blog we thought it was the...
View ArticleUser-Centric Design and the Power of Personas
If you have been following Caplin and in particular our UX practices regarding Personas you will find the article I have written for the Methods & Tools magazine on User-Centric Design and the...
View Article3 Things We Learned @UX London 2011
Just last week the UX team at Caplin had the fortune of attending UX London 2011, the largest UX conference in the UK, for three days of talks and workshops. Some of the biggest names in the industry...
View ArticleCaplin presents at SPA 2011
This year we’re presenting three separate sessions at the Software Practice Advancement Conference (SPA)! Read on for a run down of the sessions we’ll be leading. Professional JavaScript – Tues, June...
View ArticleThe Psychology of UX: Intro
I originally posted this series to my blog but I thought it would also make a great addition to Platformability because at Caplin we’re very concerned with understanding our users on a deeper level...
View ArticleTeamwork and Social Processes in Design: the Design Jam Events
Below are some thoughts on the experience of Design Jams, I’ve been to three events so far, two in London and one in Oxford. Design Jams are one-day events where designers get together to learn and...
View ArticleThe Psychology of UX: Part 1
Welcome back to this series on the psychology of UX! Today’s lesson is: 1. PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO THINK OR WORK MORE THAN THEY HAVE TO Firstly, I don’t think many people are going to debate this point if...
View ArticleInsights from Web Directions Conference
A few weeks ago, two members of our UX team (Rafael and myself) had the privilege of attending the Web Directions @Media 2011 conference for two days of talks on all things web. The range of speakers...
View ArticleThe Psychology of UX: Part 2
Welcome back to the Psychology of UX series! Today we are going to talk about something that most people think they do very well, but in actuality don’t…. MULTI-TASKING. If you are multi-tasking while...
View ArticleThe Psychology of UX: Part 3
Hello again and welcome back to the Psychology of UX series! Today’s topic is all about MISTAKES. But before we begin let’s just define… What exactly is a mistake? “..a decision or action, or lack...
View ArticleThe Psychology of UX: Part 4
Oh, you remembered to come back! So glad to have you as, coincidentally, today’s topic is on MEMORY. This blog was originally posted on my personal blog and you can check it out there too. “Memory is...
View ArticleA Tribute to Steve Jobs
It saddened us at Caplin to hear of Steve Jobs’ recent passing, but we’d like to reflect on his achievements and how they have revolutionised the world. Steve Jobs was not a designer or an engineer. He...
View ArticleThe Psychology of UX: Part 5
Exciting news! The first half of ‘The Psychology of UX’ series has been published in Methods & Tools September issue. Please go check it out. ——— Welcome back to The Psychology of UX series. Today...
View ArticleThe Psychology of UX: Part 6
Welcome back to The Psychology of UX series! Today’s post we are going to be concentrating on the subject of Attention. How do you get someone’s attention? What do people notice? What distracts people?...
View ArticleThe Psychology of UX: Part 7
Welcome back to The Psychology of UX series! We are now in part 7 which is all about information and our undeniable addiction to it. You can’t deny we live in an age where the average person...
View ArticleThe Psychology of UX: Part 8
Hello and welcome back to the Psychology of UX series! Today we are going to be learning about how your unconscious affects your decision-making and how this relates to the web. Most mental processing...
View Article(r)Evolution: learning from the history of interaction design and GUIs
I’ve always had an interest on the history of design, more especifically, the history of interaction design. This post is the first of a series on the history of interaction design and how designers...
View ArticleCaplin to host an Agile UX Safari!
The Agile UX Meetup Group is heading to Caplin! Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6:30 PM Caplin will be hosting an “Agile UX Safari” in a couple of weeks. It will be a little different to the last one at...
View ArticleWhat do designers keep in their toolkit?
I previously posted a twin infographic of the developer’s toolkit. Here we move on to look inside a designer’s toolkit. The sampling here is even narrower – only 180 designers… so it’s a little small...
View ArticleRecommendations from inside an Agile UX environment
One year ago I joined Caplin as a UX designer. It was my first experience working on a true Agile environment and it took me some time getting used to, but I believe it can be done. The list below...
View ArticleAgile UX safari
Around fifty UX Agilistas descended on Caplin’s London office yesterday for an Agile UX Meetup event. It was great to see Martyn Jones from Mind Candy again as I enjoyed the previous event they had...
View Article'Magic Ink' and the evils of interaction design!
Over on Coding the Markets there is an interesting discussion around Bret Victor and his treatise on UI design ‘Magic Ink‘ from (2006) where he uncovers the evils of interaction design Here is my...
View ArticleSketching – a creative problem solving tool (for everyone!)
As a designer who sketches daily as a fundamental part of my creative and problem solving activity I am still surprised how often sketching is discussed within the UX community – as if it’s a ‘new...
View ArticleMicrosoft Surface : A new platform for mobile HTML5 apps?
Today is launch day for Windows 8 and the many laptop / tablet hybrids that will come along with it. The slightly in your face metro UI is a big gamble for MS but it certainly looks touch friendly so I...
View ArticleReflections on UX Brighton 2012
Below is a review of my experience at UX Brighton 2012, if this comes across in a slightly aggressive tone, you’re reading it wrong. 🙂 I believe events of this kind can benefit from a more detailed...
View ArticleOur responsive web design workflow for caplin.com
For years I’ve used the same workflow when designing websites. Standard practice was to start with the content, wireframe, then design pixel perfect page layouts in Photoshop that would then be handed...
View ArticleSuperSelector – A JavaScript GUI tool to generate CSS selectors
Introduction SuperSelector is a lightweight JavaScript GUI tool to help you generate ‘smart’ CSS selectors by simply Ctrl + Clicking anywhere on a web page. What makes it cool? Easy to use – Ctrl +...
View Article2 Minutes: Mark Cossey
Mark Cossey has been Senior User Experience Designer at Caplin since June, 2012. Mark takes two minutes to tell Jennifer Reid a little bit more about his experience at Caplin and what UX means to him....
View Article2 minutes: Matthew Baxter
Matthew Baxter joined Caplin as Head of UX Design in December 2012 Leading Caplin’s UX Design team from research through to visual design, Matthew is focused on ensuring Caplin products are...
View ArticleDigital Shoreditch, am I cool enough?
Being sadly beyond growing a “quirky quiff”, I was in two minds as to how I would react to the final day of Digital Shoreditch, or “Nudgestock”, devoted to behavioural design. I pocketed the free...
View Article#DS13
Caplin’s UX team headed to Digital Shoreditch last week to discover what the most innovative and creative businesses in Tech City are doing to keep them ahead in our fast pace industry. The event was...
View ArticleHuman Behaviour @ Behavioural Design Conference
Caplin Systems gave me the opportunity to attend my first conference in London last Friday; it was “Nudgestock” at Digital Shoreditch. The topic, ‘Behavioural Design’, has always interested me, and it...
View ArticleHit The Numbers – An aid to blue-sky thinking
When the digital world first became a workplace, trading platforms were adaptations of physical work environments evolved over many years for a niche group of highly skilled and specialized people. The...
View ArticleTrouble in Flatworld
My mother gingerly taps the screen at arms length, as if lighting a firework, and then waits, flinching. And, as with a firework, only when she is absolutely sure that nothing is going to happen – and...
View ArticleThe importance of colour in trading platforms
Psychologists, scientists, advertisers, web designers and so many others have studied colour extensively throughout the years. Studies that associate colour with psychology, culture and even gender...
View ArticleDesigning for the user: not as easy as it sounds!
As a UX intern, I got the chance to work with the UX team on in house research for Caplin Systems solutions and services. Being involved with research designed to inform aspects of the UI of future...
View ArticleThe Power of Personas
Prior to joining Caplin via an internship for my master’s program in Human-Centred Systems at City University London, I had spent several years working in front-end Web development, application design,...
View ArticleVelocity – London 2013
After a thrilling 3 days at the Velocity Conference in London, I’ve put together this blog to give an overview of the more interesting talks covered in this year’s conference. For those whom are...
View ArticleIs the future of trading more transparent, social and sharable in nature like...
We got an opportunity at Activate London 2014 organized by the Guardian, to learn about emerging, game changing trends in the financial domain.The core topic of discussion was around the changes...
View ArticleFuture of Web Apps – London 2014
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. Web vs Native Bruce Lawson evangelises Open Web...
View ArticleHow do you bring customers into your innovation process?
… 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...
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