Category: Design

• Vipps (Product Review)

  

  I’m always on the lookout for new payment apps and I recently came across Vipps. Vipps is a Norwegian peer to peer payments app, currently only available to Norwegian users. These are the main things I’ve learned about Vipps: Main learning point: Love how apps like Vipps are making it easier and easier for people to pay…

  marcabraham

  May 5, 2017

  Design, FinTech, Gamification, Product Management, Technology, User Experience

  FinTech, product design, product management, technology, UX

• Some good conversational UI examples to learn from

  

  It was Dennis Mortensen – CEO/Founder of x.ai – who made me aware a few years ago of the concept of ‘invisible interfaces’. He talked about applications no longer needing a graphical user interface (GUI), taking “Amy” – x.ai’s virtual personal assistant as a good example (see Fig. 1 below). Fig. 1 – Amy, x.ai’s virtual assistant…

  marcabraham

  December 19, 2016

  Design, Mobile, Online Trends, Product Management, Technology, Uncategorized, User Experience

  AI, design, mobile, Online, product management, technology, UX

• Varo Money and its focus on the banking – customer relationship

  Varo Money is a US based Fintech startup that provides mobile banking and personal financial management services. We’ve seen mobile banks launching in various forms left right and centre over the last two years; think N26 in Germany, Simple in the US and Monzo in the UK, just to name a few. I’m keen to explore Varo more and…

  marcabraham

  November 10, 2016

  Design, FinTech, Mobile, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  startup

• “Sprint” [Day 5] (Book Review)

  

  The fifth and final day of the sprint is all about interviewing your (target) customers and learning from how they interact with your prototype. Interview “Five is the magic number”, is the point that Knapp, Zeratsky and Kowitz are making in Sprint with regard to the number of people to interview. The value of this…

  marcabraham

  September 11, 2016

  Agile, Design, Lean, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  Agile, design, lean, productmanagement, strategy, UX

• “Sprint” [Day 4] (Book Review)

  

  Once you and your team have created storyboards, you’ll spend the fourth day of the sprint creating a prototype. In “Sprint”, Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz talk about a “fake it” approach to turn a storyboard into a realistic prototype. Fake It The fourth day of your sprint is all about illusion; instead…

  marcabraham

  September 10, 2016

  Agile, Design, Lean, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  Agile, design, lean, product management, UX