User experience vs financial institutions

Today we find ourselves in a period of fickle customer attitude towards banking providers. Gone are the days when you had to crawl into the local bank managers office with cap in hand to ask for a loan or mortgage.

Customers (myself included) are expecting everything they interact with online, including their bank, to be as simple and intuitive as a shopping trip to Amazon. I'm a huge Amazon user: it isn't because it's the cheapest and it isn't because it's offering me freebies; it is because the experience of purchasing something from Amazon is a pleasure. It's simple and it's quick – so why is dealing with my bank online so painful?

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