Alexa Andrzejewski of Adaptive Path reflects on the user experience of money:
For anyone designing for consumer finance — banking, investing, billpay, money management tools, insurance providers or any business selling “savings” as a value proposition (as a consultant, I’ve learned a lot through having had opportunities to touch all of these areas) — here are some design principles you can employ to make saving a little easier for us all:
- Create perceptions that motivate.
- Make the abstract concrete.
- Equip the mind to control the flesh.
- Architect complex choices carefully.
Not sure it is enough to address people’s deep distrust towards financial institutions in the current financial crisis.