New IB Home Page - Nicely Done

[aphexcoil]

Quote from def:

Should add: In China red means good luck

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most of IB's revenue's come from the US.

 

[FX-Trader]

Quote from BobbyMurcerFan:

(If you're trading the ES, I'd LOVE to know what you do with maket depth.)

But anyway, what do you call this?

This is called market depth. It is made to confuse newbie traders.

 

[Carl K]

The new home page takes to long to load at 40k baud.
So if the main features load first, it would be quicker for a user to move to wherever, without having to wait for the whole page to load. But, it is nice to see development continue.

 

[CalTrader]

Quote from Catoosa:

I am color blind and did not even know the site was in red. Some shades of red and green I do not see. No wonder for me the site looks so drab. The old site was in blue and people with color blindness can see darker shades of blue and black without any problems.

One of the challenges organizations face in manging their systems is the temptation to redesign and/or overdesign the user interface or other component layers of an application. A good piece of advice is that if you have a working system you had better collect a lot of user and engineering feedback before you decide to change things. Inadequate project budgets and thus timelines lead to design and quality compromises that usually end up being much more expensive to correct at a later date .......

 

[Kicking]

Had a look at it this am, I agree with Caltrader, don't like the pictures of traders a la TA of stocks and Commodities. Color is OK but not with white background (yuk) I like the new banner on top, that looks cool.

 

[DT-waw]

Yes, white background is not a good idea.

 

[Instant Karma]

Quote from fleance:



My personal pet peeve which they haven't fixed is IB continues to use FRAMES ! This makes it impossible to bookmark a particular page. (The URL always says http://www.interactivebrokers.com in Address bar)

You can skip the frames with a right click on the link >>Open in New Window. And then bookmark the page.

IK

 

[Babak]

I can no longer link to their shortable webpage but instead have to go through the clicks to get to that page. I've bookmarked the appropriate page but it always takes me to the home page.

 

[trader42]

yes using frames makes the navigation harder than necessary on the IB website

 

[a_ooiioo_a hii]

They switched from "winter" colors to "summer" colors. Most of the complaints about switching colors would probably have been the same if it had been the other way around. When you get used to the new color scheme, you'll complain again when they switch back to blues or greens.

I think they've generally made the site easier to use: before, you had to click on the left column buttons to get the pulldown menus, and now you just move your arrow over the top banner and get your menus from each category. It's smoother to use.

I still think the gold bikini photos would complete the improvements (and continue the "summer" theme).