Financial services tech design: Form follows function towards data

'Enables far more targeted, specific and personalised advice'

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Putting data at the heart of financial services technology should be as integral and its form and function, writes Russell Andrews, and is a clear demonstration of true client advocacy

When American architect Louis Sullivan coined the phrase "form follows function" in 1896, he was talking somewhat poetically about the construction of buildings. Yet, the same principle has served many industries well ever since, including technology design and development. Fast forward more than a century and apply this in a 21st-century context, many of the same design principles remain true, but we should also consider what we know now that Sullivan didn't at the time. Solution design has moved forward in the intervening 125 years and is arguably more multi-layered than ever before. ...

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