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Merrill is great if you are a BofA customer and have one of their rewards cards and enough of a total balance to get the bonus multipliers. The app kinda sucks tho lol. Honestly minimal difference between the rest, I personally would pick fidelity for the app / UX / customer service, but can't really go wrong with any.
This is my review of a web app that claims to be useful for trading, Intellectia ai ... I tried to post this as a thread but seems to be an issue, maybe it'll work as a comment... Intellectia ai had a sale and so bought an expert-level full year subscription, largely for the AI earnings predictions, which initially seemed useful. But in reality, there are a number of problems with intellectia in terms of its interface and usability. ## ISSUES: 1) The co-pilot does not return results in the manner requested. When I ask you for a comma separated list of symbols, I do not want the stocks to be listed in the multi-page table. I want a comma separated list of symbols. Instead, when co-pilot returns results they are in a **non-downloadable multi-page format** that is not at all useful and cumbersome to use. When I ask it for a comma separated list of all the symbols, that is exactly what I want, not the cumbersome and non-downloadable multi page listing. That is terrible UX. 2) Poor UX and interface It seems a lot of attention has been spent on trendy animations, but no attention to how traders need to access the information. The interface on a whole is clumsy and it is difficult to access needed information. Stocks should be listed in a per-line basis and all at once, not in big graphic blocks with only 4 stocks per page, and useless animated graphics. We are not children. There is no way to tag a stock in any list nor attach a comment, nor put it into a personal watchlist. All of these things are very basic, yet lacking in this system. Also, the system does not remember settings for the various pages—for instance, if I am sorting by the “latest signal”, that is the default sort I want every time I enter that page. I should not have to re-select it each time. No alerts work from the webpage itself, only the app, and those are hit and miss ?!!!? 3) Lack of transparency. Throughout the app, there is no real way to see why or how the AI selected a given stock pick. It’s just a black box, with no further information. This is not really helpful. There are many different strategies, yet little to no information on the underlying idea for a trade. Further, the AI contradicts itself sometimes suggesting a stock is bearish in one area and bullish in another, again, with no explanation. 4) Earnings Predictor is poor The AI earnings predictions are less than useful. They are less accurate than a coin flip, and sometimes so wrong it's shocking. And the "predictions" are limited to only very large cap stocks which limits the utility of this feature. What is needed is not so much "if" a stock is going to beat or miss, but the ***degree of likely surprise in the earnings***, that is, what is priced in, and what is the direction of the biggest potential surprise. 5) Have not heard back from support about the above issues. ## Conclusion: I am fairly unhappy with spending so much money on a product that is less functional than ChatGPT. The various picks and strategies are not transparent, the signals do not alert in the webpage, the interface is cumbersome and lacks important features such as symbol export, adding to watchlist, comments, and tagging. I do hope they address these shortcomings. ## Any Positives? It has generated *some* useful signals, and the reason I bought a subscription was a signal given during the trial period happened to be a stellar return. But I'm finding that many of the signals are questionable, and I have lost much trust in the ability of this site to return anything meaningful. The swing trader signals for instance have excessively wide stop loss points. The day trader and swing trader signals claim very high returns, but again there is a lack of transparency and no real way to conveniently audit these claims. On further investigation, FinTel and MarketChameleon may be better suited, and there are others I am looking into. intellectia ai seems to be written by coders, not traders. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if much of it was coded by another AI, LOL. This post was written by hand, no AI used at all.
I hate teams too but thinkpads aren’t meant to serve the same needs as any apple laptop. Thinkpads are durable workhorses that arent intended to be fast, just to always do the job, and represent professionalism and stability. You’ll never be surprised by a thinkpad. Apple products are meant to spark creativity, have better UI/UX (although they’ve regressed recently imo), and in the past few years also be a faster laptop. In exchange, Apple is more expensive, less durable (hardware and software), and still has some remaining problems stemming from the Apple vs Microsoft war
Well MSFT products are extremely sticky for some reasons. Every time I use Teams I just want to curse, what a piece of shit, and I don't even talk about the UX: it's the sluggish and unresponsive that sucks. I refuse to use Windows desktop at work and luckily my employer allows Mac.
how can WEBULL perfect the platform and provide such a sexy UI/UX experience? ** don’t have calls or direct interest in it
Here is the only thing that matters. Waymo isnt profitable and Uber is. Waymo is burning cash. They might have unlimited pockets to pick for a long time and might become profitable. But the fact remains they are burning billions on cars and tech for an industry that will be disrupted by someone. Uber is the most likely competitor. But it most certainly wont be the only one. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Stellantis, and Mercedes Benz are all likely. A fleet of cars is expensive and the deprecation on them is enormous. Waymo can quickly become the victim of first movers risk. They are attempting to build enough brand recognition to offset that risk. But I feel Uber already beat them to the punch in that category. Also, Elon isn't wrong in expecting private owners will be able to use their vehicles for income. That might be held back by insurance regulation. But that seems unlikely as that will damage US car manufacturer interest greatly. Ride sharing has the expectation of being a luxury experience already. The expected life cycle of the cars is about 5-6 years. The UX experience in those vehicles will start to feel old well before that and that is where a competitor can come in and eat their lunch. The cost to develop a competitor experience will be less for the next mover and the user experience will be the defining factor in how its received by the public. Ride sharing isnt going anywhere. Drivers will be displaced. But that is still quite some time away. Uber has every interests in eventually replacing drivers. But they have the same level of intertest in not losing the revenue to anyone else. Uber has the advantage and will maintain that advantage for a long time. People renting out their cars to Uber is the more financially sound way of doing it as thsy doesnt cost Uber money maintaining an expensive fleet. Waymo is looking at a $1B-$2B reoccurring cost just to maintain/update their fleet every 5-6 years. That cost will only go up the more cities they include. Lets also not forget the promise of Google Fiber. They have a history of eventually giving up when the cost to expand scales up. To cost to provide enough vehicles to just the major cities is astronomical and Alphabet will eventually lose interest as they continue to drag resources away from more profitable endeavors. All this is to say, Waymo isnt going to replace ridesharing for many reasons. They give it a good try until its too expensive. The ultimate winner will be Uber and one or two alternatives that will most likely leverage the debt incurred by car owners instead of themselves. That will take a long time to get enough people to own the cars in the first place and thus Uber drivers are safe for the foreseeable future.
u/moneyprotocol \+ u/intrinsicfinance drop later this month. Might be the cleanest LP staking UX we’ve seen yet.
There is absolutely 0 reason ads will not continue to follow us into AI, whatever the UX may be https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/s/jS0Ak7s5Ms After search result ads and social media ads and podcast ads (which I recently learned aren’t actually recorded into the podcast) and tv screen ads and now fridge ads The most monetizable business in the world will remain. Typing into ChatGPT? You’ll get ads in the response. Have an “always on” personal helper in your ear? They’ll guide you towards the highest paying supermarket
If SDEs were relying on just implementing what others have done before, yeah, your job is on its way out already. I have managers implementing UX that you previously needed knowledgeable/experienced people to do. But in truly solving a complex problem or creating a new system, AI is useless. But if you can break it down into smaller understood problems which is what senior engineers do for junior/entry level engineers, then the implementation can be done by AI.
Between fig and adobe I could not decide so ingot both :). Turns out adobe decided not to compwte with fig in the UX collab space so they are now distinct
It’s awful UX but on the other hand it also crashes often especially during market hours
I use Fidelity for LEAPS and stocks but their UI + UX is ass for active trading IMO
I would say for getting started you can’t go wrong with robinhood (with a very small amount of capital!!!). The UX is just very intuitive, options price simulator is great. It does have little education pages on each options strategy as well though you should be doing reading or watching tutorials before trading them anyway. You’ll soon learn that it’s not sufficient for advanced traders (can’t roll spreads or for example do multi leg strategies with more than two legs). People often point to bad fills. Personally I’m not sure whether the fills are that bad when you factor in no commissions, but I’m not a seasoned trader so I can’t really comment. What I can say is that at a small scale the difference probably isn’t huge, which is why I think it’s a fine place to start.
> Based on your experience in the field, how far off are the reasoning models being able to do anything genuinely useful? Negative distance. They can already do plenty of useful stuff, and I mentioned in point 6 that I'm working on an actually useful (and likely profitable) project. What made this project possible is: * Inputs, intermediate data, and outputs are all text-based * The output is *very* standardized (format, structure, tone) * The current solution is a custom-built workflow, not a generic "agentic" implementation. We leave very little to the LLM, and hold its hand all the way * *Lots* of feedback from experts, scientists, UX, and engineering > I see the big money over the next 5-10 years from AI / ML in robotics and similar fields [...] Big data is old news (but always relevant). A strong "yes" about robotics. Judging by some research results I've seen and the drastic cost reduction of robots, it makes sense to me that interest will rise both from hobbyists and companies. Robotics will let AI (be it LLMs/VLMs or other entirely different architectures) tap into fields that weren't possible before. And it doesn't have to be anything fancy or humanoid, a robot that can pick up more sensitive fruit would be nice (btw some early attempts were made in the 2010s, but not sure how it ended up). I *think* that there is research showing that betting on new technologies (and sector ETFs in general) hasn't worked out in the past, but who knows. I've personally put a tiny amount (<1% and will keep dropping) in ROBO (if anyone knows an international alternative, please suggest!).
Use Interactive Broker. $0 fee for US stocks. Their UX suck though.
If anyone wants to know what it looks like when companies save money by offshoring UI, UX, and engineering overseas, Vanguard is a prime example. Their website is basically unusable, and they have no idea how expensive their cost savings actually was.
Yeah idk if numbers can tell the whole story for this guy. As a personal user of the app for multiple years the UX has only gotten worse with the learning gains from the app immensely hampered. I know most people regard Duolingo as just a gamified language app but it used to be decent for learning as well. With the age of AI I have used other apps which have completely incorporated AI into conversations and better learning outcomes without being drowned in ads like duo. Duolingos has recently rolled out a stronger push towards free users being required to watch ads if they want to do more than three lessons. This might reflect in stronger revenue and income the next couple quarters. That being said, I'm not sure how you would trade this. I would look to more signs that arpu is decreasing before shorting at the very least. Or more signs that sentiment among users is worsening.
The problem with the bubble is separating the slop from the success. AI might be in a bubble as a boom but that's largely due to all the idiots creating low value AI generated business and services just using existing freemium/business packages sold by the big boys. You can't compare a million AI UX programs made with clanker code to say the automation of an entire industry through purpose designed projects.
Yeah but why spend $5k on a privacy policy on an app that nobody might even use? If it takes off and makes a ton of money then I would reevaluate. Like all of my assets like icons, images are all AI generated. Again if my app takes off I can go back and hire UX or pay for stock photos. But for now I can keep costs low and launch more apps and leverage AI to increase my output.
Nope. The Ray-Bans themselves. I went to a store to try them out, the AI struggled big time besides (sometimes) answering scripted questions from the sales people. It was a very dysfunctional demo and even the people there couldn’t figure out what was wrong with them. They blamed connectivity (as usual) but we tried multiple spots and no luck. Sound fared better, although I’ve heard better even there for sure. I for sure am not gonna spend $400 on that. Apple may be behind on AI, but their iPhone hardware and UX (for example) is far better than the rest of the competition. I’d much rather try Apple ones when they come out.
I mean smart glasses can take off but likely not from Meta. I don’t think Meta got the hang of it. The product and integration from them is terrible. I’d love to see smart glasses from Apple though. They may be behind on AI but they know UX in and out, unlike Meta.
Yeah I like SoFi too. However I think Robinhood’s UI/UX is better though. But bullish on SoFi excited to see how this plays out
Do you actually have a thesis to make about TSLA or are you just shilling your datavomit that is this Claude Code generated garbage app? Some advice: use a modern sans serif font and immediately make this UX 100% better.
UI is trash? Only thing Adobe got right was the UI/UX. It's so good that most apps, even non 2D editors, try to copy it now. It's everything else that is killing them slowly, especially the ridiculous pricing.
I don't think so. A lot of our work revolves around talking and understanding users and their context. Then figure out what the appropriate UI is to solve their problems. The UI part can probably be partly generated to save some work. But you will need an expert on the other side to evaluate if it is the right UI being generated. There is a subset of UX designers who are called "Design System UX Designers". They don't really talk with users, and are just making design UI in a system. Those can probably be replaced with AI over time.
Nintendo was able to build an economy of scale, and keep their users in their walled garden to sell games at top price to them. They have loyal fans who love their IP. OpenAI's only chance at profits is selling ad space; it's why they tried building a social platform, and now a browser, with neither of those doing what they needed, the only option left is to shove ad space in to ChatGPT. That is truly the only place where they can profit from now and as that degrades UX, people will switch to Gemini which won't have to rely on selling in chat ads.
The thing is their UX and UI is pretty sexy
Meta usually fucks it up in the app/platform layer. It’s too restrictive and doesn’t have a strong base. Both Google and Apple have a strong device app ecosystem. Apple has proven record of 2nd mover advantage by nailing UX and form factor. I’m still long term bullish on Apple. If Steve Jobs was still alive, he wouldn’t have let Siri stagnate. Tim Cook = Steve Ballmer.
Solid analysis. Twilio still dominates its space, and once margins improve, valuation could look cheap. I’ve seen tools like Clerk Chat building on top of Twilio’s infra. It could be a sign that Twilio stays core to the ecosystem while others innovate on UX. Long-term potential feels underappreciated right now.
Solid analysis. Twilio still dominates its space, and once margins improve, valuation could look cheap. I’ve seen tools like Clerk Chat building on top of Twilio’s infra. It could be a sign that Twilio stays core to the ecosystem while others innovate on UX. Long-term potential feels underappreciated right now.
You could literally argue the exact same about google. Google steals UX integration from apple such as airdrop and airplay, focus modes that sync across devices, the find my network, family sharing in the app store, and Android auto being a ripoff of apple carplay. You still can't have an android smart watch set up as a standalone device for a kid last I checked. Android is always discussed in "have they caught up the ecosystem to match apple's" and the answer is often no. Android has been scraping off every idea of an integrated ecosystem of devices and they still haven't even caught up in functionality let alone refinement. That is why every year in the high end smartphone market, google loses more and more ground to apple. I cannot believe there are people here in the year of our lord 2025 who fell for the android marketing campaigns so much that they internalized it as an inalienable truth despite all evidence to the contrary. And this is not even mentioning the fact that google is an advertising company and apple does not sell your data for ads. It's absolutely ridiculous.
The difference is that Apple’s design and feature set evolve in response to competition, not in isolation from it. Many of the things Apple is praised for today- widgets, swipe typing, multitasking, even notification controls first appeared on Android because Google iterates in public and Apple adopts only when it can perfect the execution. Apple’s “best” UX is often a polished version of ideas that began elsewhere. Over the past decade, Apple has increasingly followed Android’s flexibility. Apple’s real strength has always been refinement rather than originality.
That seems like a very long winded way to say that their UX design actually wasn't stolen from android, which it seems we both agree on. I can list just as many things that google took from apple. notification badges on apps, granular privacy controls, voice assistants, editing screenshots directly,
That timeline argument only tells half the story. Yes, iOS 7 launched before Google’s full rollout of Material Design, but Apple didn’t invent flat design, layered translucency, or gesture-based navigation out of thin air. Those trends were already emerging across Android skins, Windows Phone, and even web design in the early 2010s. Google had been experimenting with card-based layouts and color-driven hierarchy in apps like Google Now and Google+ before Material Design was formally branded. Apple’s “clean slate” aesthetic in iOS 7 reflected that broader design shift. And since then, Apple has consistently incorporated Android-inspired features: notification grouping, widgets on the home screen, always-on display, app library, multitasking views, even features like tap-to-wake and customizable lock screens. As for the “chair” analogy, phones aren’t static tools like furniture. Their interfaces shape how billions of people communicate, work, and navigate the world. Expecting refinement and innovation in UX isn’t about novelty for its own sake,it’s about making those everyday interactions smarter, more efficient, and more human.
The UX being stolen is literally just false. iOS broadly adopted their current design language in iOS7 which released september 2013, when google did not begin to develop their material design language counterpart until 2014. It seems like you're just repeating something often said about android hardware features about their software design and it's untrue in this instance. Plus, I don't understand why something has to be new within the last 10 years to be the best. We don't have this same expectation for like, chairs. Not a ton of new innovation in the chair space recently but I'm allowed to still like them for some reason. My phone behaves broadly identical to how it did 10 years ago and like, that's a good thing. I like how it works. I like the device.
I disagree with this. I have never in my life held another laptop that is anywhere close to as good as a macbook is by any manufacturer. I'm a software developer and I grew up on windows and only made the swap to mac two years ago, and that was only for one of my two jobs so I still use both every day. It's like an entirely different world. I've bought nice and expensive windows machines before. None of them are even half as good as a MacBook Air in battery, specs, weight, and price. I have also never used another suite of products that are as interoperable as Apple products are. They are literally best in the world when it comes to UX design over such a broad range of products. I have my gripes (let me fiddle with my pictures more granularity dammit) but having used both, the apple ecosystem is miles ahead of the competition. There are specific devices or specific apps in android that can sometimes outpace specific use cases on iOS, but the average quality of every single feature is way higher right out of the box. And at this point, what else do I need my phone to do? Why do I care about how long it takes to come to platform when I get the guarantee that when it comes it will be easy, obvious, integrated, and bug free?
Claude is in my experience a far more coherent model. ChatGPTs edge is the UX and array of features, which I think ultimately would mean they win out with retail customers.
IBKR UI/UX is ancient compared to others.
I'm a technical writer/information designer/UX person. Twenty years ago, there were various, solid, stand-alone tools for me that Adobe gobbled up one by one and enshittified. Ten years ago, I was begrudgingly using an entirely Adobe tool set. Now, I am using various, solid, stand-alone tools that do their individual jobs much better.
In the US I can’t buy SPUT uranium commodity physical trust unless it is OTC But I CAN buy Roundhill’s product ticker UX which gives exposure to both SPUT and Yellowcake PLC. Also the ETF’s. UROY feels safer than the others as a royalty play with a gouge holding of uranium the commodity. DNN Uroy calls
But in a post-Jobs world, I don't think there's been any massive disruptions on the level of AI and LLMs. In the case of LLMs, the user experience is directly correlated to the quality of the tech. It's not a UX game like most products, the tech is the main differentiator
The iPhone was based on using *existing tech* with a new form factor. The CPU, RAM, touchscreen, mobile internet and apps already existed. Apple just nailed the size, design, UX and integration. When the iPhone launched, the hardware and connectivity were ready to support Apple’s vision. But AI today isn’t in that stage yet. Apple could redefine AI *one day* but probably only once the tech stabilizes enough for them to do what they did with smartphones.
This. So many people I know are hyped up that AI is taking jobs from graphic designers. I’m sure there are a few jobs AI has replaced. Offshoring the jobs - this is what’s really happening. Graphic designers, marketing, UI/UX. Offshoring. It’s making the already highly competitive designer market even tougher. The Trump administration wants to see factories and manufacturing back. Great. But what about all the light blue and white color jobs being offshored? Not a word.
I use them for their charts because ibkr is horrible at UI/UX. I do have 1 share of Apple that was given to me as a gift for joining though
Fidelity fanboys be like “having trash UX is actually a good thing, trading apps should be slow and difficult to navigate”
we all have kings. they wear hoodies and run UX teams.
Schwab’s customer service is excellent. Thinkorswim and parts of the Schwab app are also excellent. I wish I could combine certain aspects of the UI/UX for their two apps and Robinhood into one super app. Schwab’s calculation of margin and collateral is worse though vs Robinhood and some of their option fees are insane, especially at smaller values (closing for recouping 50 bucks will cost you like 40 dollars leaving you net only 10). Despite that, if their collateral calculation was better, I’d still use Schwab vs RH. RH app crashes all the time and you can’t show lots of meaningful data in one-go on the app. Can’t speak to Fidelity’s collateral calculation and option fees so if our dude repping Fidelity can give us some insight, I’ll consider checking them out.
I know right? Like nothing else I tried comes close. I tried trading212 and the UI/UX was dogshit.
Solid analysis. Twilio still dominates its space, and once margins improve, valuation could look cheap. I’ve seen tools like Clerk Chat building on top of Twilio’s infra. It could be a sign that Twilio stays core to the ecosystem while others innovate on UX. Long-term potential feels underappreciated right now.
lol calls on HOOD 🤣 OP apparently can't help himself their interface is so good. Fidelity's crappy UX is the only thing that can stop him from being a degen
I'm an Oracle employee as well. Our services are running at high capacity based on monitoring data, and our highest priority projects focus on scaling up our existing services. I understand that OCI UX isn't ideal for retail customers, but the company is focusing on enterprise customers.
Let’s be real here, if it’s just post work, the PTS part of your job could even be skipped before AI, right? It’s less desirable, sure, but still possible to skip ? What I mean is, that might work for you, but not for jobs where the Adobe Suite is a main requirement, like UI/UX or motion design. (and dont tell me you use GPT to add info, text, logo, make full presentation, poster, etc ...)
You should take a class on UI/UX design and send your input to all the trading app developers with notes on how to be better
I use RH in the UK, purely because the mobile UX is easiest.
Yes. If a company can’t manage to produce a professional UX in 2025, it’s often symptomatic of deeper issues: disorganization, lack of attention to detail, or leadership too enamored with pitch decks to notice that their digital front door looks like a high school group project.
Definitely not beep beep beep robots but all AI agents seem to be coming back to the realization you have to interact with human UX to actually be useful in an enterpise environment. But there are a ton of players in this space and even ms/goog/AWS dabble.
As a graphic designer I think the market yes got a little too excited with the IPO but is currently still not entirely buying the company's real potential at least medium-long term. Other stocks seem too shiny at a crazy time like this. Honestly I've seen the impact on efficiency and communication that switching to figma (from adobe) brings to a high performance design team, so at last it's nice to see $FIG finally getting some love after the troublesome IPO because the business behind it is very real. I feel like the market indeed doesn't understand how this platform now offers something no one else does. This can be a perspective that stays inside the design bubble but their presence and confidence from public only grew since I was in college and loved adobe 4y ago. No one expected it because we are so weary of platforms like your Canvas' and such. Also the market might have been a bit delusional with the more glamurous AI centered stock recently as to think FIG's business is immediately threatened by it. Well their clients are very loyal, the product is solid and they are adding AI as well... and honestly to develop and refine a product like what they already have with this much innovation and this little bugs takes quite some time (looking at you, Adobe). With professionals now working remotely more and needing to do UI/UX more often, I actually wonder how has the wide switch to figma already impacted into Adobe's business and expectations for the next few years. For the medium-long term traders, don't sleep on FIG. Adobe's valuation a couple years ago was 40 a stock and Figma only got better since. They opened at $33, the market just got a little too excited but their growth as a company is slow and steady. I'd say keep an eye on it. About the craziness of the market, I feel like since recently they showed they are working on integrating AI it and announced a few new products, the Altman thing just brought more eyes to this perfect storm. I'm worried about it growing too fast but on the mid long term is one of those stocks I'll keep buying the dips since the september end bounce.
Try GalaxyOne instead. Its new UX is awesome
Terrible summary. Figma is excellent for UI/UX Design and Development.
They lost their jobs at Wendy's and became UX designers.
Probably a strategy from gambling UI/UX practice.
And the fact it isn't just goes to show how shitty and evil Robinhood's UX team is.
The menu opens at the bottom of the viewport. Terrible UX.
Other than the mobile UX how the service, I'm looking at it to primarilry use on my computer.
I day trade options. sometimes 600-1000 options a day. so commissions is the first turn off. secondly I tried their iOS app and it's absolutely trash. i mean a college grad would build a better UX. I use robinhood. one of the best app and improving everyday.
genuine question here: if you have this much money to trade with, can I ask why you choose to do it on robinhood? is it the ease of the app, having it at your fingertips with decent UX, self service vs relying on a broker, etc.
I just tried again. It finally worked thank you! Before I had their USD savings account (?) and it wasn’t doing what I wanted it to do. For easy UX they made it hard to find that option on the “add account” screen.
Yeah I was gonna say 'the algorithm' is kind of just one great implementation of a set of increasingly widely known persuasive UX principles that any engagement-driven site can and does use. I'm sure TikTok have little optimizations at the margins that may make theirs even more effective for their product, but that's as likely to be about the content style, browsing experience, and second-order social effects as the algorithm itself imo. It's just the natural result of an incentive structure wherein engagement directly drives revenue. That's the goalpost, and the best minds in tech are working on nailing it, so 'the algorithm' isn't some TikTok secret sauce. Everyone is trying to do more or less the same thing, because that's what's financially incentivized. With no penalty for any negative effects this sort of hyper addictive engagement engine might have on people, nobody has any reason to give a shit about it.
no, 1) complex workflows can come out of simple systems, and 2) UX is a whole field, and one of it's goals is to reduce cognitive load and make things simpler to use.
FIG has a competing product, additional there AI code gen has gotten wayyyyy better as well. I understand the claim you are making now. You are better that devs can just generate mock ups with gen AI tools. I think there is a lot of evidence that companies are waking up to be reality that AI is got going to just let us get rid of all human employees and I strongly feel that in the coming years, the companies that attempted to do this are gonna pay a price for it. Don’t give me wrong. AI is going to make us more productive than we could have ever imagined, but I think that the companies that are going to try and like a vibe UX and vibe code their way to real production grade software will be the losers at least in the next decade. I realize that that’s a controversial take, but it’s honestly one that I feel very strongly about
You think UX is a problem that doesn’t exist anymore? Literally, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Look at any publicly traded company that makes software, they literally all have a UX department that they invest heavily in. The only places that don’t are companies that don’t make serious enterprise level software
I mean yea 😂 LLMs are inherently flawed That’s why I’ve been so bearish on the “ChatGPT killed Google search!” At its best it’s a wrapper of a real search engine. Calling search then summarizing result —- basically a UX The search integration in Gemini app is pretty good but not perfect. AIOverviews is nice cuz it ALWAYS searches but since it’s so high traffic they run a shitty smaller LLM on it so it’s funky
Yeah I hear you. But I think with UX and some UI you still need skills (empathy) and a good eye to know what works. To me it’s like saying, well wix and Wordpress themes exist so we don’t need UX/UI designers anymore. But companies will still want bespoke things.
I'm an UX designer. Been using Fig for 5 years plus. I skeptical this software can survive AI.... Hell, I skeptical 80% of UX designers can survival AI.
I have accounts with CS, Fidelity, Vanguard, and Robinhood. I will someday look to roll them all except Vanguard into RH. The others ones just feel ancient and UX is very important to me as someone who actively manages my retirement and portfolio.
It’s crazy that people didn’t. Putting Mac’s in schools was a game changer. My elementary school was all Mac in the 90s. We used them a lot, we had computer lab, and we also played on windows machines at home or at the library. The Mac UX was elite by comparison. To this day, I only have a windows desktop for gaming. And it has an arch Linux drive on it as well. I use a Mac for work and it’s an excellent work laptop. Battery lasts like 12 hours even with the max processor and a ton of ram. It’s Unix enough to give an exceptional developer experience. Morally, I would be full Linux, but I can’t deny the Mac utility. And that’s just the fucking computer, not to mention the iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch… and they all fuck in synchrony.
Agree. I moved all my non gambling stuff in Fidelity but stick to options in RH. It gets a lot of shit but for casual retail traders it’s still the best UX IMO
Tbh Fidelity has the worst UI / UX of all the brokerages I’ve used
Thank you. As someone who is deeply passionate about crypto/blockchain/web3 and think it helps solves some of the problems we have today, I hate this “just buy bitcoin” mantra or the people who say crypto will solve everything and is perfect at its current stage. That’s incredibly disingenuous and quite frankly wrong. Serious investors & thinkers see right through that kind of propaganda and write off crypto. The tribalism is ridiculous. Personally, I see crypto as a means to give equitable access to financial tools. I see things like low fees as a way to help working class and migrant people save the little money they have. But I also recognize the UX isn’t perfect right now and a lot of education needs to happen due to the irreversibility of most chains. But, I do think long term it’s way forward. It just takes work to get there
My boss asked me to show him a prototype that our UX/UI guy had prepared. I got lost on the screen and couldn’t show shit. Almost got fired because of this shit 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Fidelity has all the options anyone could ever want for normal buy and hold investing. They support fractionals. Support weekly auto for stock and etf. Decent default money market. Decent budgeting and account linking for expense tracking. Trash historical performance comparing to benchmark though, I will say that is a negative for Fidelity. The only other factors would be preferred mobile UX (irrelevant for me, if it was serious I would go to computer anyways), or options preference (I also have low demands here).
It seems like the same data you get on IBKR for free (option wizard). This have much better UI/UX, but doesn't seems to add anything special, it's a Black Scholes in nice package.
I did the same and transferred my IRA from Vanguard to RH. I am a huge fan. So much easier to use. But the bonus match was what got me. I was going to point out the 5-year requirement. You get the bonus right away but they can claw it back within 5 years. As for IPO’s, they are doing more but keep in mind, just like anywhere else, they limit allocation. So you could ask for 100 shares and end up just getting a few. They also ask that you hold for at least 30 days as they want to discourage flipping. You can sell right away but then they won’t allocate ipo’s to you. I also like that everything is integrated from stocks, crypto, options, futures. Super easy UX. They also have fantastic margin rates but I don’t use margin. One other note… if this is a standard taxable account, when you sell VTSAX and have gains, be aware of the taxes.
Web experience is pretty trash for your average investor. It's flashy but the basic UX isn't geared toward "give me a table of my positions and relevant info at a glance", it's more "YOOOO BET ON THIS SPORTS EVENT" "YOOOO ENABLE MARGIN BRO" "HOOD WEEK COMIN'" But for the huge bonus I'm fine to set and forget.
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Think about any app you’ve ever used. Could be a mobile app, a web app or web site, desktop app, you name it. Now think about the experience you had using that app. Did the app look good? Was the app easy to use and you were able to get your task completed efficiently? Did you enjoy your experience using the app? If the answer to those questions are yes, then you likely should be thanking the UX/UI designers, not the programmers. Figma is the tool that software companies use to design not only the appearance of software but also experience itself. Additionally they have a lot of code integration features and also are working on AI coding solutions to take designs from design to production ready applications though it’s very early days. But all that is to say, there is some AI theme there. They have a lot of other collaborative work products, but that’s like their meat and potatoes
Wrong. I worked in F50 company, and we didn’t use Figma. For mature products that need occasional redesign of a button or a form and good integration with development Figma isn’t useful. It’s actually just one of the available tools and heavily overhyped in my opinion. And taking into account the UI/UX designers going out of relevance with AI it’ll become obsolete really quick
How is it better than most brokers in UX wise?
It is one of the best UX apps in trading. I use it heavily for my stock investment.
Yea. SPAXX and it behaves as cash. You don’t have to sell out to make available. You can trade and withdraw with it. SGOV is better, especially if you live a state tax state. But the default money market is pretty killer. Fidelity allows fractional buys of stock and ETF’s, access to crypto ETF’s, great budgeting tools. Better website and UX. I love Vanguard, but there is no real reason to use them unless your favorite advisor manages your money there. Vanguard would prefer you buy VOO at Fidelity anyways. It’s all cost to service self directed accounts. The benefit is having possible managed account prospects.
Designer here. I never met a single designer who hated Figma. It was made by a UX Designer who understood user interfaces. Miles better than Adobe from a UX point of view
DIS needs to quit buying shit, and spend money to fix the ESPN mobile UX. Shits hot garbage and always has been.
I do my trading on Schwab but I still use HOOD to check option prices because the UX is so much simpler, even though the only thing in my HOOD account is the “free stock” worth $2. Do better, Schwab
I don't know, that's a generalization at best - not every article about their IPO has this information. Proof: investopedia's article doesn't mention it https://www.investopedia.com/five-things-to-know-about-bnpl-provider-klarna-ahead-of-ipo-11701015. Also when did we have negative interest rates? If you mean that inflation makes it more profitable to take a loan with 0% interest than use your own money - it's still 0% interest, not negative. Not being a nitpicker, just wanted to make sure I understand what you mean by negative interest rates. That's the thing - Figma is just one of the tools that removes the need to use Photoshop for UI/UX designers, and it's not the best for the products that are mature and only need tiny redesign of a button(s), a form or a cross close button like what big corporations do. Zeplin is much better as it has a better integration with development. Don't get me wrong - I'm not diminishing Figma's product value, but even then, it's just a tool for designers, a niche program, something that could become obsolete in the AI era where UI/UX designers will become obsolete most likely. Can Klarna send your debt to collections? Does it affect credit score like credit cards' unpaid statements do? Reading this post it seems like many people think it's a free money tool and accumulating debt of the customers that the company wants to unload on investors of their IPO. The standing split is quite remarkable :)
ADBE is a Full package, currently dominated in all aspects. Continues to innovate integrating perfectly with AI. Firefly is a Hit and everyone loves it! New PDF AI is a grand-slam. FiGma is just UI/UX design dominates it because ADBE end their software as it planned to acquire FIGMa FiGma technically has no competition at the moment. And is having trouble growing… CEO literally said it in the CALL, I completely disagree with you. Time will say. You’re stuck in fiery tales and unicorn.
these people are in digital product design and know whats up so I wouldn't be surprised to see massive selling. they know the trend is not our friend in UX/UI until someone starts caring about making AI not all about chatbots and raw compute power in data centers
U just offended all the UX UI, marketing designers
BFA in industrial design and attempted to get into the UI/UX field and opted out due to how saturated it is; maybe that was a sign I shouldn't have bought in on earnings, but I agree with you the potential is undeniable and I do think they have a monopoly on the UI/UX field and will contiue as they introduce AI and the sata they have at thier fingertips.... u/Fukreddit011 clearly does not have a design background and best of luck with Adobea s thier software is incredibly overpriced and lacking behind the free software like Canva and the ai wave that is going to eliminate them all together; thats the difference between UI/UX and design is UI/UX relies heavily on data to drive interaction>sales- thats the value in FIGMA not the design software itself