Archive for April, 2007

Design roundup: PC Financial, Canada Post

April 1st, 2007

My favourite Canadian bank, PC Financial added a brilliantly designed feature to their ATMs:

PC Financial ATM deposit screen

No more addition mistakes. Enter checks one at a time, and let the ATM do the math. So smart! Why didn’t anyone think of that before?

Wells Fargo does this now, too — they scan the checks and read the amount in automatically. And they no longer require envelopes.

PC Financial’s relatively low-tech solution is something that can work with all existing ATMs, and doesn’t require new hardware or banking laws.

On the other hand, take a look at the work of a clueless Canada Post graphic designer:

Canada post’s ship-in-a-click, part 2

No wonder Canada Post is so slow at delivering things — all their mice are upside down.