The Baader-Meinhof Effect and its Impact on User Experience Design

With increasing product market saturation, innovations are welcomed. Especially when it comes to user experience (UX), a factor not many companies take for granted nowadays. It speaks volumes about what little details can tip the scales for a digital product. The Baader-Meinhof effect is something you can overlook at first glance but it’s essential when it comes to users and the app’s performance.

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Humanising Fintech – How Empathy is Transforming Financial Services

In today’s highly competitive industries, customer choices are often determined by nuances. Particularly in sectors where technology evolves rapidly, such as fintech, understanding and addressing user needs is invaluable. Empathy, as a cornerstone of humanising fintech, enhances customer experiences and revolutionises the design of digital products.

In this article, we will discuss how an empathetic approach leads to greater customer satisfaction, loyalty, and improved business outcomes.

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10 UI / UX Design Trends and Predictions for 2023

The latest trends in UX/UI design highlight what we all have been observing through the years – mobile-first, wearables, and simplicity that’s paramount to sophistication. Building digital products has never been enough but this time around designers are looking to architect user experience, not around the product but rather around the users themselves. Personalization is the name of the game and UX/UI trends for 2023 are a proof of that.

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Data Visualization UX – Best Practices & Bad Patterns

FinTech is for people, not for robots that crawl for data. Apps should be simple, functional and display all information in a way that can be understood by everyone. Tech-savvy Generation Z and seniors. The art of presenting data to a user should involve fun and user involvement, you want people to actively use the product. 

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Price Comparison Sites Are Smarter Than You Think

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Ecommerce is now nothing like it was ten years ago, independent online shops now have so many ways to reach new customers. Besides marketplaces, one of the most impactful of them are now price comparison sites. These aggregators grew to major players in ecommerce and how they work is fascinating. Find out all about them from this article.

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Quick Crowdlending Guide – What It Is and How It Can Make Your Investments Better

FinTech is all about finding new ways to do business and make money. Whether it is a smart way to reach investors or a simple, retail buy-now-pay-later solution, everything is oriented towards creating something nobody has ever thought about before. Even money lending has been revolutionised lately. Crowdlending is becoming a global phenomenon as we speak, so don’t be late — find out all about it right now!

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Storytelling with Data: 5 Steps to Create an In-App Data Visualization

Unless it’s about counting money on our bank account, then for many of us, numbers are hard to remember and boring. We need a context and a good reason to process them. Not to mention making something useful out of it. The same goes for FinTech users. What if you could help them through storytelling?

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What Is a Design System in UX and Why It Is Important to Have One?

We all know LEGO bricks and pieces; many of us grew up having them and then passing the torch to our kids. With LEGO, we can dream and build anything: a car, a house, a castle, even a space station. From the smallest and most humble design to the most ambitious project—everything can be constructed with the right amount of supplies and patience. It’s possible because these pieces can be used many times over in different combinations. And this is the exact nature of the design system in user experience (UX).

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What Are the Design Principles in UI/UX in FinTech?

You are in the dark and complicated labyrinth. You can barely see the sun, the path has twists and turns and there’s no exit to be found. Backtracking seems to be the only option now. Retreating and finding a new path seems to be logical, and cost-effective. To save you from the headache, we have prepared this short but detailed FinTech UX and UI guide.

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User Experience Friction in Real Life Examples

Designing an app to be user friendly is a must, right? User-friendliness is not a simple term, though and its complexity is actually gigantic, when you take a better look at what it involves. One of the key aspects one needs to understand and consider from the very beginning of work on an app is user experience friction and its three main areas: emotional friction, interaction friction and cognitive friction. Read more to find out what they are and how to avoid them.

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7 Ways FinTech Innovations Improve the Customer Experience

Do you ever feel like your favorite institution or app can do better? Implement responsive UX, improve helpline, simplify onboarding or just include you more in the conversation? Many customers feel that way about digital products. They don’t want to be cogs in the machine, grinding the same load every time they contact the institution or use its services. Customers want to be heard: here’s how to do that in FinTech.

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Progressive Web Apps: Towards an Immersive User Experience

Progressive Web Apps have gone from buzzword to mainstream in record time. Freeing the user experience from the boundaries defined by devices and network conditions marks another step in the digital evolution. So does bridging the gap between web and native applications to offer unprecedented usability and reliability. While PWAs are making headway in boosting performance and engagement, Code & Pepper investigates their key features and business growth potential.

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KYC: Leaders in Digital Identity Verification

As digital finance is gaining traction, the KYC (Know Your Customer) process is becoming vital for sustainable business models. With regulatory compliance at the roots and modern software solutions in all branches of operation, FinTech’s evergreen status relies on striking the right balance between code of conduct and customer experience. While tapping into the ABC of KYC, we begin our due diligence by identifying industry leaders in digital identity verification for financial services.

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Product Design Journey: UX Roadmap

In one of previous posts, Code & Pepper took you on a full-blown product design journey: from discovery to development. However, that roadmap wouldn’t be complete without at least hinting at some user experience notions. The compilation below focuses on certain aspects of UX, which come to the forefront in FinTech applications as make-or-break moments.

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UX Design Patterns to Improve Transparency and Feedback in FinTech Apps

Transparency and feedback in UX are all about making sure that the users of your application know what will be the effect of their actions – the ones they are going to take and the ones they have just performed. It helps to build trust in your product, especially in the case of new users. In less than five minutes, I’d like to introduce you to a few UX design patterns / ideas that will make your application more transparent and trustworthy for new and regular users.

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