Blockchain

To create a modern, ergonomic design for their user interface, our Skein team first delve deep into the specifics of C24Tech’s sphere, including reviewing SWIFT message file formats and the nuances of financial data flow. We studied six basic user personae profiles to get into the mindset of the Chief Data Officer, Citizen Scientist, Business Analyst and other types of technical and non-technical users who will use the product for very different objectives.

Our UX designer and front-end engineers, as well as the rest of our team, know it’s essential to have an in depth knowledge of user needs. To gain this expertise, we captured and internalised client and end user feedback on an ongoing basis.

Competition research also provided us with an insight into the existing systems and helped us develop approaches to visualisation techniques, as well as UX flow, colour schemes, and technology stacks.

At this stage, we calculated the scope of the work needed, completed the preliminary requirements and confirmed an action plan.

While planning the UX, the Skein team considered the various user personas and the modularity of C24Tech’s system. We worked in close collaboration with the C24Tech’s team at every stage, from interdependency algorithms to the wireframes for user interface elements to final designs in Adobe Illustrator and front-end implementation.

AngularJS front-end framework was selected as the most suitable for its flexibility and scalability. When working on this stage of UX, UI and front-end implementation, we discovered that developing framework with flexible, iterative sprints was the best approach.

The core principles that were used in this project:

• Focus on reusing existing code, employing open source and third party modules are set to speed up iterations.
• Crate a design that captures and defines the market problem; and build a relevant solution.
• Align technology roll-out with customer development, marketing, operations, financial strategy and investor relations.

Skein developed the front-end component for C24Tech’s system using AngularJS to interact with the Java back-end. It used an innovative low-level data optimisation techniques and ultra-efficient data compaction. C24Tech’s system is now able to increase its available capacity of in-memory solutions, such as Hazelcast, GemFire, Coherence, Ehcache and Gigaspaces, plus big data tools including Apache Spark and Hadoop, by up to 50 times. As a result of the optimised data, query speed was significantly improved. The front-end improvement also meant an increase in a positive user experience and in greater customer involvement in terms of system interactions with the front-end component.