Tag: UX

• Lending revisited: Bond Street

  

  Bond Street lends to small businesses that might typically struggle to get a loan from traditional banks. In a recent talk on a MIT Fintech course that I was doing, David Haber – Bond Street’s CEO/Founder – mentioned how Bond Street saw a clear niche in the market for small business loans and acted on it.…

  marcabraham

  October 11, 2016

  Data, FinTech, Startups, Technology, Uncategorized, User Experience

  data, FinTech, product management, startup, UX

• Swish (Product Review)

  

  New payment technologies seem to be springing up left right and centre … Swish is another innovative payment platform which I encountered recently. About two years ago six Swedish banks launched Swish. Swish is a mobile app that lets people use their mobile phones to make payments and transfer payments to someone else’s banks. The money gets…

  marcabraham

  October 8, 2016

  eCommerce, FinTech, Technology, User Experience

  cross-platform, FinTech, payments, technology, UX

• Abra (Product Review)

  

  The main reason why I’m excited about Abra – a US-based peer-to-peer payments startup – is that people become tellers or ‘human ATMs’ who expense cash at hand to the recipient. The Philippines is a key target market for Abra, and it facilitates seamless payments between residents of the US and the Philippines. Recent stats show…

  marcabraham

  October 3, 2016

  FinTech, Mobile, Online Trends, Startups, Technology, Uncategorized, User Experience

  FinTech, mobile, startup, technology, UX

• “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