Users have a wonderful ability to find all of the bugs and issues developers miss. With all that feedback, we have been very busy getting them sorted.
We are very excited to release the new user interface. It isn't perfect, it isn't complete but it is good enough to start letting the users provide feedback and guidance. We didn't slow development speed over the Christmas and New Year period, so there is a lot to share.
With everything slowing down over Christmas and no pressing bugs upsetting our users, we have put all of our resources into the new UI, which we are anticipating releasing early next year. There will not be a new deployment until the New Year. See you then!
Even though most resources are focused on the new user interface, we are still improving what you can see right now. Widget tweaks, speed improvements and monitoring were all on the radar this week. In addition, we have really focused on writing down and codifying our design language to ensure a consistent experience across the platform.
As we come into the Christmas and New Years period, we have focused all resources on developing the new User Interface and exploring what improvements we can make. Unless there are breaking bugs, we will not do a new code deployment until in the new year. See you then!
Completing a major user interface overhaul isn't something that can be easily rolled out each week. It has been a hive of activity, just not a lot that you can see yet.
For a long time we have been focused on ensuring that all of the features work as expected. Now we are shifting our focus onto making them look amazing.
The best caches are stable and invisible, silently improving the user experience while doing a lot of heavy lifting. This week we migrated to a new cache system to speed up the user experience.
Not every week brings new features. Sometimes you just have to focus on getting the ones you have working better and hunt those bugs down.
The sign up experience isn't as smooth as we would like it. Working isn't good enough, so we are getting ready to improve it.
This week we were focused on improving some of the key features of the service, tagging and the rich text editor.
A very quiet where we did a little recharging. A couple of small bug fixes a tweaks is all we did.
Small but meaning full improvements across the board this week. For larger accounts, the import size has been increased, visual tweaks and better notifications.
Introducing the Trader-biz forums. A place to chat about what you are trading and communicating directly with the team.
This week has been focused on improving the slower loading features. Coupled some other visual tidy up and refinements.
Some bugs need a specific trigger before they arrive. This week we have been chasing some in the data importer.
There was a bug in search that resulted in some results not being correctly included in the results. Plus lots of other little bits and pieces.
This week we resolved an issue that allow a user to import Positions from multiple accounts into a single Trader-Biz account. We are also refining and developing the Notion importing feature.
Continuously refining the systems we have implemented isn't exactly the most exciting thing, but it is what brings polish and reliability.
This week has been about stress testing the new trade data importer to make sure it can handle everything you could throw at it. This also lets us stress test the whole system.
Importing your trading data needs to be seamless and reliable. Preparing to migrate to a new system that achieves those goals.
Importing from one system into another isn't easy. This week we continue to investigate how to make this as easy as possible. A tricky problem to be sure.
We don't have all day to wait for websites to load and neither do you. Account reports now load significantly faster. Plus a whole head of other fixes across the site.
The way we were presenting Position information was not ideal. Introducing a new way to list the positions, including column filtering, column reordering and colours.
Want to see how your account is tracking when you are on the go? Account reports are now available on mobile.
This week we have seen even more reporting features implemented as well as starting to work on a feature to import Notion journals. If you are using notion to journal for your trades, keep an eye out for this one!
This week there has been a big focus on improving the reports that we provide. We have added new report types, fixed small issues in existing reports and improved how fast they load.
This week we have been focused on delivering the core features we want to deliver. That brings a major feature being the account reports. After all, what good is journalling if you can't see how your account
This week we have finalized the migration to blocknote for the Rich Text Editor. This has required a lot of backend tidy up that the user won't see, but will let us expand the capabilities going forward.
Payment processing should be quick and simple. This week we were focusing on making sure it is quick and painless. Additionally we made some updates to the way you update your preferences.
Finding your information should be fast and easy. Whether that is how fast a page (or calendar) loads, or being able to update things directly from where you an see them.
Writing journals is a key part of the Trader-biz experience. We want it to be as quick and easy as it can be. So we are changing things up with a new and improved Rich Text Editor.
Sometimes some of our pages take longer to load. This could be due to the users internet speed, or we are doing some calculations that take time. We have made some improvements so that it is clear that things are loading, and the website hasn't broken.
Sometimes bugs are not easy to find and the solution isn't what you expect. When you get them sorted though, they are all the sweeter.
This out of sequence release brings a number of show stopping bug fixes.
Sometimes taking the easy road ends up taking more time and work. Managing email newsletter lists was getting this way so we rolled our own solution. Plus a few other little bits and pieces.
As we get closer to launching the Explorer tier, we are making the final additions and tidying up.
As the backend infrastructure develops, we need to automate as much of the rollout as possible. This week we have been focused on making it as easy as possible and capturing the right information if something goes wrong.
You often hear that the last 20% of the work takes 80% of the time. Developing great products is no different. We want the experience to be great from the first click.
The list of little improvements that need to be made are never ending, but making sure that onboarding is a smooth process is the focus of this week.
Plenty of small refinements this week as we continue to test during the final stages of the payment processor integration. Also taking the chance to fix bugs as they are found.
As the payment processor integration matures, it is time to start adding it to the user flow. This week we have overhauled the user signup form and process to include making payments.
While the list this week is short, it hides a huge amount of work to make things as robust and reliable as we can. Part of that is making tooling for us to quickly test and debug features.
Updating what we have already is a continual process as the product evolves and improves. As we develop better methods of doing things in the backend, it is an opportunity to make existing features more robust. Plus a few bugs squashed along the way.
This week has seen some significant upgrades to the backend server capabilities. We don't want user experience to be affected if large amounts of messaging is occurring with the payment providers, so we made sure it just doesn't affect it at all!
The big focus for this week has been continuing to integrate the payment provider with the backend infrastructure. There is a lot of messaging when a payment is made that you need to process for a smooth user experience. We have also made notifications clickable, so it is even easier to navigate when something changes.
As we continue to use the test the products, we are fixing all those little things that make the user experience seamless. One thing that we were really missing was Seach to be able to find the exact trade we were looking for.
User tags are a feature that we are super proud of. They will make using your data a whole lot easer. This week we have tweaked the UI and updated the default tags that you start off with.
Sometimes things that look simple have a lot of hidden details that make them a little complex. Turns out mailing lists have lots of little complexities.
As we progress to going live, we are ramping up our internal user testing. Any little things that we find are getting tidied up to make things as slick as possible for our first users.
There has been a lot of work on internal tooling this week as we push towards our launch. Sometimes these things don't feel productive, but they save a lot of time in the long run.
It is always tricky to get the underlying data structures right the first time. Give we do not have any user data yet, now is the time to make some final adjustments. While we were at it, we also made a few tweaks to the watchlist UI to make it easier to use.
Another big week of backend development, including looking at payment providers. Plus all that boring backend stuff that no one is interested in!
This week has seen continued focus on preparing to release Trader-Biz. Adding in features and monitoring that was not needed during development that help us maintain a top quality product.
Trader-Biz has been in development for a long time and we are getting closer to going live later this year. This week saw a strong focus on preparing our computing infrastructure for running the production environment.