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Where’s the call to action?

  • Sunday, 28 December, 2008
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On logging in to your HSBC Hong Kong personal bank account the customer gets a brochureware spashpage promoting HSBC products (why no account summary?).  To access their accounts (the reason the customer has gone to the trouble of logging in) the primary call to action is in a box on the right hand side of the screen.  It’s the <Show> button next to gray-on-gray text “My Accounts”.   The strongest call to action is to the ‘new trading site’ Stock Xpress.  It’s a small point, but a call to action as important as account access should more prominent and be the focal point, not an easily missed button.

Where are the missing floors?

  • Friday, 3 October, 2008
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Lift panel with numbers missing

It is fairly standard practice in Hong Kong for buildings to have no thirteenth or fourteenth floors. They are considered unlucky numbers. Not sure what happened to the first, second and fifth floor here. And back-to-front button numbering that is neither in the telephone format nor the phone format. There’s a couple of lessons to learn here; when designing human-technology interactions consider cultural norms and existing design stereotypes. (Sorry, its the Human Factors conditioning in me that notices such things).