Designing for expert users: how to avoid pitfalls

The world is complex; our tools need to match that complexity Don Norman, Living With Complexity At NORMAN AND SONS, we spend a lot of time designing for expert users ...

by Graeme Harker

• April 27, 2023May 9, 2023 • Content, Opinion

UX in Financial Services: What to Know as a Starter

If you are starting a project in financial services UX, you should keep some important things in mind to ensure that you are successful in your role. Here are a ...

by Rachel Ragan

• April 6, 2023May 2, 2023 • Content

Helping traders win by focusing on the right trades

As banks continue to build on the digital banking momentum, they must pay attention to design debt and cross-platform consistencies within their digital suites. This will improve user satisfaction, process ...

by Hannah Peters

• January 25, 2023May 2, 2023 • Case Studies, Content

3 Reasons We’re Excited for FINOS 2022

What are the latest advancement in technology to streamline the Financial Desktop? What are the latest advancement in private Blockchain technology? For answers to these questions, look no further than ...

by Hannah Peters

• November 14, 2022January 25, 2023 • Content

Top Tips to Improve Project Delivery in a Remote World

It’s (almost) never a technology problem. It’s a communication problem! As Technology consultants, we see many different ways of working, use a huge range of tools and meet all the ...

by Seb Ben M'Barek

• October 18, 2022November 14, 2022 • Content

Our Creative Director and Partner, Savvas Voudouris has been papped!

His success story has been featured in a recently publish  ‘Voria’ financial e-newspaper article. Read the original article here. The English-translated article is below: Savvas Voudouris the graphic designer who ...

by Hannah Peters

• September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 • Content

Normans Assemble!

This week saw an afternoon of storytelling, knowledge sharing and sushi eating as our talented consultants (nicknamed ‘Normans’)  gathered from across our range of exciting projects. We run regular ‘Norman ...

by Hannah Peters

• September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 • Content

How does your organisation knowledge share?

Braving the UK heatwave this week, Norman’s convened for a funfilled day of nattering, sketching and delicious food consuming!  We run several ‘Norman Days’ throughout the year, a combination of ...

by Hannah Peters

• July 22, 2022July 22, 2022 • Content

How continuous is your research?

The presence of research in product development and continuous improvement should be as constant as social media activity. Otherwise, research becomes irrelevant and a simple tick box exercise. Simply completing ...

by Hannah Peters

• July 20, 2022July 21, 2022 • Content

We need shared names for things

When we work on things together we often need to agree what we call things. My daughter and I have developed a language for the most common components to help ...

by Graeme Harker

• May 2, 2021May 2, 2021 • Content

Can business work with technology?

I was recently invited by the Grid Talks podcast to talk about our firm’s attempts to convince financial services firms to try the “Californian” approach to software development in which ...

by Graeme Harker

• August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 • Opinion

What did Glue42 just do?

Do you find yourself copying and pasting the same stuff between apps on your desktop all day? If so, you should probably find out more about desktop automation solutions like ...

by Graeme Harker

• April 10, 2020October 13, 2022 • News

NORMAN & SONS keynote speakers at FinTech Festival 2019, New York

NEW YORK | November 13 |Graeme Harker, Managing Partner discusses “Why Integrate Applications on the Desktop?” We are excited to be speaking at this year’s FinTech Festival in recognition of ...

by Jonny Corbett

• November 4, 2019August 23, 2020 • Event

Join us at ActiveViam Connect

LONDON: Johnny Mattimore, Head of Strategy at NORMAN & SONS, will be discussing ‘The State of the Regulatory Landscape’ at ActiveViam’s annual conference

by Jonny Corbett

• September 10, 2019March 31, 2020 • Event

Getting your desktop transformation right the first time: webinar

Join our free webinar on June 25 with JP Morgan Asset Management, Norman & Sons and Glue42.

by Jonny Corbett

• June 17, 2019September 10, 2019 • Event

Design Thinking and Innovation: Women in the COO Community event

NEW YORK: Round-table discussion with COOs on how we use Design Thinking to help large financial organizations to innovate

by Jonny Corbett

• May 9, 2019March 31, 2020 • Event

DesignOps for Product Innovation: keynote at the FinTech Design Summit

LONDON: How setting a foundation of DesignOps can help banks and FinTechs achieve their product vision and encourage ongoing innovation.

by Jonny Corbett

• April 18, 2019June 18, 2019 • Event

Are your applications dated and disjointed?

An enterprise interoperability initiative may be the answer – but have you considered these key questions?

by Jonny Corbett

• March 18, 2019May 29, 2019 • Content

Design for Data-Heavy Organisations: keynote at the UX Crunch

LONDON: Keynote covering a decade of design trends for data-heavy organisations

by Savvas Voudouris

• January 26, 2019September 10, 2019 • Event

Innovating with DesignOps

LONDON: We spoke to an audience of digital leaders on how DesignOps and Design Thinking can support organisations with innovation.

by Jonny Corbett

• January 18, 2019June 17, 2019 • Event

CloudMargin Begins Roll-out of NORMAN & SONS-Designed User Interface and User Experience

We worked closely with CloudMargin over the past four months to realise their vision of a new UI and UX.

by Jonny Corbett

• March 14, 2018June 17, 2019 • News

Did they fire the right guy?

January 2018. An employee at Hawaii’s emergency management agency sent out a false alarm of an imminent missile attack, and was subsequently fired. Was poor system design really to blame?

by Jonny Corbett

• March 19, 2017May 28, 2019 • Content

Are you designing Homer Cars?

User Centric Design: YES! – User Dictated Design: NO!

by Jonny Corbett

• December 20, 2016May 21, 2019 • Content