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The BBG UI certainly hasn't changed since then. They bought in John Lakos (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-lakos/4/117/888 https://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-l
by osullivj 11y ago
The BBG UI certainly hasn't changed since then. They bought in John Lakos (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-lakos/4/117/888 https://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-lakos/4/117/888), the "Large Scale C++" author to help them make the jump to C++ in 2001 and linkedin says he's still there. Given they have a winning business model, and the forces of inertia being what they are, I'm betting nothing's changed...
- eli 11y agoThe UI looks archaic but I wouldn't presume that says anything about how it works under the hood. There are other forces at work on the UI. See e.g. https://uxmag.com/articles/the-impossible-bloomberg-makeover https://uxmag.com/articles/the-impossible-bloomberg-makeover
- apaprocki 11y agoThe UI and the technology it is built on have changed drastically since a decade ago, but not all changes are cosmetic. Changes to the core UX have to happen gradually and evolve with users because, as you know, this is an actual real product used 24/7 and you can't just change everything out from most users on a Friday when they come back into work the following Monday. I'm not going to say much about that linked article -- just that it is almost complete nonsense and wish it would stop being brought up whenever the software is mentioned.
- eli 11y agoYes, I think we're saying the same thing. And I didn't realize that was a frequently cited article.