The UX Factor: Visual Design Meets Finance

Usability Lab at Bloomberg's midtown Manhattan headquarters

One outcome of Bloomberg's Next usability project was a new World Bond Markets Index function, which borrows Edward Tufte's micro-visualization techniques in the form of sparklines tracking yields in red and green, and "range bars" displaying spread variation towards the right of the screen.

- Timothy Bourgaize Murray
- 29 Jan 2013

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Well beyond bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies and permissioning, the ubiquity and consumerization of technology has effected a fundamental if subtle change in values for builders of financial platforms. Our redefined relationship with technology, one that is ever more personal, demands a new quality of interface, with “experience” defined not only by expanded mobile access, but greater elegance of design within the tools traders and portfolio managers use most frequently, even when sitting

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