The Dos and Donts of Building a New Trading UI in a Web Browser

• Do invest in maintaining and enforcing visual design guidelines
• Do think about how to measure the profitability of a feature
• Dont build and manage the UI separately from the backend
• Dont make the same mistakes that led to the current UI limitations
• Do break down your org silos to better enable code reuse
• Dont send any more data than is needed to the UI
• Dont assume you have all the right skills in the team
• Do use the end-users workflow to drive your design
• Dont forget about developer productivity
• Do focus as much on testability and supportability as on features
• Do everything you can to make data monetizable

At Velox our mission is to provide an application platform to our clients that maximizes their ability to innovate rapidly. Would be great to hear your opinions on factors that you think are missing.

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