Comment by bluepizza
3 years ago
- Uber Eats is super popular, what do you mean with disappeared?
- TeamLab’s design of the Resona Bank app is modern, lovely, functional, and full of features. All done by locals, for a local bank, to be used by locals. Don’t confuse lack of investment with a cultural effect.
- International transfers are difficult in any non European country, that’s why Wise became so popular. Shinsei makes a lot of their money on their antiquated but easy to use transfer system, for example. But Wise is the most popular international transfer app in Japan. Which also has a modern, easy to use UI. Both support recurrent scheduled payments.
- A lot of well designed UIs were jumped at, including iPhones, Apple TVs, Balmuda appliances, the new touch screen 7-11 ATMs, Uber Eats, etc.
It seems to me that you got trapped in the “I can’t criticise my host country and need to assent to every one of its quirks” attitude that plagues most foreigners in Japan. Most Japanese people find those websites fucking ugly, they just don’t care. I believe that this is the cultural effect at hand here - a lot of locals really don’t care if the design is good or not.
How do I make recurrent payments in Shinsei? There's no option from what I've searched. For transfers yes a transfer from Spain to the USA or UK is a bit harder than intra-EU, but it's trivial compared to Japan where you need to apply to some gvmt card to even qualify to apply to the int transfer service, which of course I got denied 4 times because of my name.
Your whole comment seems trying to find the worst interpretation of what I said on purpose... I mean Uber taxi of course. I said some modern UIs were adopted, but still IMHO not enough to clearly show it was a huge pain point as we think (saying people "jumped" to the iPhone in Japan because of the UI also doesn't make sense, considering how long it took to be adopted and how high Android was for a very long time). Etc.
You mean because of MyNumber?
It's your responsibility to maintain a consistent katakana transliteration of your name. I don't think many banks would accept documents if your name was misspelt, no matter the country.
MyNumber's purpose is precisely to curtail white collar crime. Of course there would be tight regulations around that. But it's something that you make only once.
EU countries are economically and legally integrated to very high levels. Banking regulation is simplified for intra EU transfers. Japan is an isolate that is not part of any economic unions. Banking regulation focus on the domestic market and crime prevention. Different countries, different needs.
I agree that bad UIs are not a huge pain point. As I said, nobody cares. But that doesn't mean that bad UIs are liked or appreciated. They are tolerated.
Learn Japanese and get yourself a Resona bank account.
Yeah I didn't misspell my own name, why would you assume so?
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