There are 6.8 billion people on the planet, 5.1 billion of whom own a cell phone (source). And today, an ever-growing percentage of these devices are smartphones. According to a recent Pew Research Center Study, the number of users accessing the Internet on their smartphones has more than doubled in the past 5 years, as
I’ve been following leading user experience professionals & digital strategists for years now. Jared Spool, Tomer Sharon, Aarron Walter, & Paul Boag are among the top on my “hit list” to get for an interview here on UX Crunch. But, I finally managed to get the guy behind Lean UX – Jeff Gothelf – to
It wasn’t too long ago that we’ve seen technology companies developing their products using the waterfall method, particularly the leading players in the financial industry. The use of waterfall was largely due to the threat of changes in high regulated operations, the tendency not to leave their comfort zone, and the corporate politics factor. ‘Don’t
Living abroad and dealing with finances, whether it be a simple currency transfer from my U.S. account or a wire transfer from a client’s account to mine, can be a bit of a hassle. Those irritating fees and cuts banks and services take – I mean, what’s up with that? You’d imagine that with the
Trends here, trends there. Really, trends are everywhere. So, what better way to cover my own version of the top fintech and user experience trends than to highlight the already-existing ones which I found most valuable? (Kudos to the influencers who have taken the time to evaluate the market from 2014 and share their professional
It’s a funny (and not funny) story because just the other day, I got my credit card paper statement in the mail of all my charges from the previous month - not funny because that hefty number at the bottom of the statement was painful to swallow; funny because, well, who looks at these paper
It was not too long ago that I’ve done my research trying to identify the importance of user experience in businesses, particularly having stakeholders accepting UX within strategy, whether it’s connected to marketing, product, sales or customer service. Now, only a few years later, it’s obvious that user experience is an invaluable asset for product
Moving money around from one place to another is a focal point when it comes to the global financial technology/Fintech scene today. With the rising popularity of fintech technologies, among the main four segments – personal finance, lending, bitcoin, and payment technologies – the latter has received premium spotlight. In fact, 7/10 largest financial technology
Consumers have waited anxiously for quite some time for the introduction of mobile payments that will disrupt the tech world and make a lasting impact on their daily lives. Well, the long wait has been beneficial after all. As of 2012, the worldwide mobile payment volume in 2012 was 163.1 billion US dollars and is expected
The internet has fathered numerous sophisticated innovations over the years: Amazon for the book industry, Netflix in the entertainment industry, Coursera.org for education, among others. Now, the internet and the financial industry have merged to create Fintech. The financial industry has taken a turn for the ‘better’ with the introduction of some revolutionary fintech products.
