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Interview: Gong Szeto of OptionsHouse

February 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Financial Markets, Information Design, Interviews

Mention Gong’s name in New York and most people know him as a premier designer, one of the guiding lights of Rare Medium (back in the day). Mention his name in Chicago and most people associate him with OptionsHouse, an up and coming retail options brokerage where he is the Director of Product Design. [...]

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It’s The Little Things: socialPicks

October 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Prediction Markets

User experience professionals are often driven mad by little things. For example, some web sites can appear perfectly reasonable and usable to its users, but can drive us batty because of the few, minor things which were so easy to get right, but for some unfathomable reason were completely screwed up.
Take socialPicks, for example. socialPicks, [...]

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What’s in a Game?

September 16th, 2006 · No Comments · Prediction Markets, Usability

The world of trading games has been greatly expanded in recent years by the addition of play-money prediction markets. To this we are grateful, since it has expanded the range of trading interfaces and brought a lot of innovation to the process of how someone trades.
Typically there have been two types of trading screens, [...]

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