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From the Lab to the Trading Floor with Erin Murphy

From the Lab to the Trading Floor with Erin Murphy

Signals and Threads vor 2 Jahren

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Erin Murphy is Jane Street’s first UX designer, and before that,
she worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory building user
interfaces for space missions. She’s also an illustrator with her
own quarterly journal. In this episode, Erin and Ron discuss the
challenge of doing user-centered design in an organization where
experts are used to building tools for themselves. How do you
bring a command-line interface to the web without making it worse
for power users? They also discuss how beauty in design is more
about utility than aesthetics; what Jane Street looks for in UX
candidates; and how to help engineers discover what their users
really want.

You can find the transcript for this episode on our
website.

Some links to topics that came up in the discussion:

Erin’s website that shows off her work.

Her quarterly journal of sketches and observations.

An article about Erin’s design work with NASA JPL.

A paper that among other things talks about the user study
work that Erin did at JPL.

Jane Street’s current UX job opening.