Investments made easy.
Montgomery Investment Management is a boutique funds management firm based in Sydney, Australia. We got approached by Roger Montgomery to build and interactive application to facilitate the manual work required to perform an investment.
Seriously simple
Making an investment doesn’t have to be complicated. What if the legal paperwork required for an investment can be generated and pre-filled by an easy-to-use online form application?
The challenge was set and we embraced the cause.
Un-complexing the process
The normal process of applying for an investment involves going through over 20 pages of information divided into multiple sections.
With an open mind we evaluated the flow and suggested a few points. Points that could potentially ease the process if implemented in our online application form - making it easier to go through digitally.
Crafting a styleguide
Having a style guide is crucial when dealing with responsive web design. And since we are working with forms, having all the components laid out would help visualizing how well our design is doing to communicate our overall solution.
The design was made in house by ourselves.
Experiencing the flow
To build a nicely designed UI that fills a purpose is one of our favorite kind of projects. Animations should have a meaning. Design should solve a problem. Development should make it real. Everything is crafted with the intent to help you go through the application in the smoothest way possible.
Technologies
Montgomery Investment website is built with Drupal, giving us a chance to dive in and learn more about this popular enterprise Content Management System. We also built some advanced functionality like performing communication with external systems and rendering a pre-filled PDF with the given information from the app.
An ambitious project where custom development embraced user experience and design very nicely.
Drupal
Content management.
PHP
Popular back-end scripting language.
MySQL
SQL database management system.
GreenSock
Animation Library.
SASS
CSS pre-processing.
Backbone
Browser and device feature detection.
jQuery
DOM manipulation and more.
Grunt
Task Automation.
Modernizr
Simple JavaScript components.
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