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Our final design does not explicitly give these definitions anywhere. Instead, it only indicates bids and asks on the quotes table. We assumed that, given the small user population, it would be possible to communicate this some other way. We chose these definitions because it makes the most sense. The opposite definition would imply that a user was paying money to do more work, which cannot seem rational to most intended users. While we could have easily added a FAQ or README tab, we believed that this would be poor taste and decided against it.
Design Decision IV: Ability to Trade from Most Pages
We promoted user control and efficiency by allowing users to initiate trades from any page.
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Implementation
Describe the internals of your implementation, but keep the discussion on a high level. Discuss important design decisions you made in the implementation. Also discuss how implementation problems may have affected the usability of your interface.
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