Bloomberg is building the world’s most trusted information network for financial professionals. Our core product is the Bloomberg Terminal, an independent and unbiased source of information for our clients around the globe. Bloomberg’s user experience team is dedicated to enhancing and evolving the Bloomberg Terminal through human-centered design. We partner with product and technology to accelerate our clients’ access to data and insights every day.
We asked Eddie Ishak, Head of UX Financial Products at Bloomberg LP, some questions that get at the heart of why they’re passionate about design operations, what it’s like to work at Bloomberg, and what makes their products and services special to design operations professionals.
The more Bloomberg understands its clients’ goals, motivations, and workflows, the more seamless their user experience can be made.
The concept of predictability is crucial to navigating the Bloomberg Terminal.
Alex Hurworth, Mobile User Experience Team Leader at Bloomberg shares how taking chances brought her to the industry and offers invaluable advice to those just starting out: Be brave!
Bloomberg has built a world-class UX team — not only by serving the end-user, but also by serving users within the broader organization and UX team.
How, as a UX designer, do you redesign an existing product or feature without disrupting the workflow of hundreds of thousands of financial professionals?
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Get ready to party hearty with our Platinum Premier sponsor, Bloomberg LP, Rosenfeld Media, and DesignOps Summit 2020 attendees. Start by leaving your stress in the rear-view mirror (we’ll have a mindfulness expert on hand), watch a mentalist read attendees’ minds (if you believe), view a fantastic UX video based on the play, Hamilton (it’s election time after all), and prepare for plenty of speed-networking with your design operations peers. Lots of reasons to join the fun at our Opening Reception!
Get ready to party hearty with our Platinum Premier sponsor, Bloomberg LP, Rosenfeld Media, and DesignOps Summit 2020 attendees. Start by leaving your stress in the rear-view mirror (we’ll have a mindfulness expert on hand), watch a mentalist read attendees’ minds (if you believe), view a fantastic UX video based on the play, Hamilton (it’s election time after all), and prepare for plenty of speed-networking with your design operations peers. Lots of reasons to join the fun at our Opening Reception!
COVID-19 forced nearly the entire global financial community to work remotely. Screen real estate was dramatically reduced, as traders transitioned from multiple 4K monitors on a trading floor to a single laptop screen in their home office. The design solution—adapt the Bloomberg Terminal experience to fewer smaller screens—was straightforward. Executing that solution required UX-led collaboration, organization, and cross-functional commitment from product, engineering, and sales, all in a very short period of time.
New York State recently released COVID Alert NY, a mobile contact tracing app that will alert the user if they come into close contact with someone else who later tests positive for the virus. Hear the designers of the app talk about their experience collaborating remotely across three time zones on this high stakes project. What processes and tools were helpful when designing an app that needed to explain a complex concept to the state’s 19.4 million residents in a way that would be universally understood, accessible, and available in 13 languages?
In mid-March, Bloomberg’s UX team went from a 100% in-office design group to a 100% at-home design group. Challenges quickly surfaced, but once the day-to-day was running and overall anxiety had diminished, teams started to see the silver linings in shifting a multi-office, multi-country design team accustomed to an open office plan to working remotely.
