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Designing Mobile Payment Experiences
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Designing Mobile Payment Experiences

by Skip Allums
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
242 pages
6h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 3. Leading US Mobile Payment Experiences

Today there are mobile payment initiatives by everyone from traditional financial networks like Visa and MasterCard to upstarts like Loop and Clinkle looking to cash in on the gold rush for consumer mindshare of the mobile payments space. Figure 3-1 illustrates what the US mobile payments field looks like to date, with startups like LevelUp giving established financial institutions and technology companies like Google and MNOs (Isis) a run for their money.

Apps from startups like LevelUp are butting heads with larger wallet efforts like Google Wallet and Isis in terms of consumer adoption and feature offerings
Figure 3-1. Apps from startups like LevelUp are butting heads with larger wallet efforts like Google Wallet and Isis in terms of consumer adoption and feature offerings

As we saw in Chapter 2, there are three primary ecosystems that power mobile commerce: NFC, cloud, and closed loop payments. The structure and performance of these distinct ecosystems have a significant impact on the mobile consumer’s experience at the point of sale. In this chapter, we’ll closely examine some leading experiences in the US mobile brick-and-mortar payments market, highlighting the innovations and shortcomings of their designs. In particular, we’ll focus on three key aspects of payments design that I feel are the most crucial to the success of a mobile payment experience:

Payments

Using the app at a point of sale

Feedback

Instructing the user before and after transactions

Security

Protecting the user’s financial ...

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