Theba

You might take a look at mint.com, filife.com and
http://www.willyoujoinus.com/energyville/index.aspx?economist=eco3459
for some interesting takes on financial apps and calculators with a
more playful tone. They don't have sophisticated formulae but might
trigger some ideas.

Cheers, Mia

--- In GameUIdesign@yahoogroups.com, "Theba Islam" <theba.islam@...>
wrote:
>
>
> Hi John, looking forward to hearing more about the discussion.
>
> Was wondering if you or anyone could help me with this –
> I'm redesigning an extremely dated charting application used by our
> Rates Traders.
> Though dated and clunky the functionality is very sophisticated,
> allowing them to do volatility & correlation analysis and risk
> modelling.
>
> The goal is to make the application more playful, game like, in
allowing
> Traders to pick and choose from the 1000s of instruments and
markets,
> customise historic volatility calculations, drag and drop formulas
into
> series/weight combinations and redraw charts.
>
> Have you come across anything similar in Banks or even games that
could
> help?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Theba
>