The
Usability Company recently undertook some site testing across 8
different online banking services, these included:
Natwest
Alliance and Leicester
Abbey National
Lloyds TSB
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Egg
Intelligent Finance
Cahoot
As you might be able to tell, four of these were fully online banks,
while the other four where traditional real-world banks.
As a simple overview to the usability of the sites we asked our
eight participants to complete 2 tasks:
"find the savings account with the best rate of interest"
and
"find a telephone number which will guide you through setting
up a savings account"
We specifically left the word "helpline" out of the second
task as different sites had named the service under different titles.
Nevertheless, users knew what they were looking for and whilst
there were a few difficulties navigating into the interest rate
sections for the savings accounts, we gained the most interesting
results from the second task.
The
Sunday Times
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