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When you pay someone, you expect to get a receipt for the payment. Especially when that “someone” is a business. Receipt – or “proof of receipt of payment” – must be issued by the Payee / Merchant so that you can use it to independently prove that the Payee / Merchant has received your money. … Read more
I go directly to the websites of my favorite brands whenever I shop online e.g. Amazon for products, Cleartrip for flight tickets and hotels, Housing for real estate, Play Store for mobile apps, Product Hunt for software and websites, StockImages for images, and so on. I can’t remember the last time I went to Google to … Read more
A banker quit his job and started a new company. He applied for a debit card for his company. Ram, as we’ll call the ex-banker, completed the required forms, submitted his company’s board resolution for the debit card and handed over copies of his company’s incorporation certificate, articles of association, and all the other documents … Read more
Short Answer: You can’t. Long Answer: As an external marketing solutions provider, we stand to gain when companies outsource their marketing. We’re also okay if they do their marketing inhouse. But what gets my goat is to misunderstand marketing and claim that it’s not necessary for a product’s success. Or, worse, use some of the … Read more
Ram and Shyam are twins. As they reach their mid-forties, they develop a knee pain. They go to the same orthopaedist, who does an X-Ray and diagnoses both with Osteoarthritis. According to WebMD, The simplest way to describe osteoarthritis is that it’s wear and tear on the cartilage of your joints. This cushioning tissue is … Read more
As soon as my daughter was born, I opened a bank account in her name. As a minor, her account was held jointly in her parents’ name all these years. My daughter turned 18 recently. I went to the bank to change the account status to “major” and apply for a credit card in her … Read more
In continuation of my previous post entitled A Few UX Hacks, here are a few more UX hacks. #4. MERCURY READER Problem: While they’re not cluttered, some webpages display their content across the entire width of the screen. Reading these webpages can be a strain on the eyes. Solution: Mercury Reader again! Apart from stripping … Read more
As we saw in Feature Or Bug – Facebook & Tideplus, #FeatureOrBug refers to a feature that masquerades as a bug. To recap: As brands increasingly adopt personalization in their communications, what you see is not what I see. Then there are other types of differences like: What you see on desktop is not what you see on … Read more
I covered two Blockchain flight delay insurance products in AXA Fizzy – The New Kid On The Blockchain and Atlas Etherisc – Another New Kid On The Blockchain. In this post, I’ll address the “Why Blockchain?” question. Here’s a quick recap of the background to this question from the first of the above two posts: … Read more
In Feature Or Bug – Facebook & Tideplus, we saw two cases of #FeatureOrBug, one of which was favorable to the consumer, and the other, neutral. I’ve subsequently come across many more favorable / neutral cases of #FeatureOrBug. I thought I’ll cover them before fulfilling the promise I made at the end of the last post to … Read more