Comments for Hayden Vink: Life In The Fast Lane

Comment on Open letter to Jeremy Wells by newsgirl

newsgirl — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:01:00 +0000

surely a case of his tounge is someone elses cheek?

Comment on Design, Art, and Advertising by adpro

adpro — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:30:16 +0000

I’m down with Dom on this. If people consider advertising and design in silos and labels they’ll miss what matters – the user/customers needs.

Comment on Design, Art, and Advertising by Dom

Dom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:01:19 +0000

I agree, good design is important, but if your focus is on MAKING, you will get killed. Think China.
Also, having great design and fit for purpose is great, but no good to anyone if they don’t know it is available. Hence advertising.
And yes, some companies butcher thier advertising. Various reasons for this.
I prefer to take a step at the greater dsicpline of Marketing. Design fits into this much better, as it is about Product, People & Place (remember the 4 p’s?) And Price. No use havinga well designed product if no one wants to pay for it, or the benfit of the design is not Real or Felt.
Anyway, I could go on, but it is not about Advertising vs Design. It is actually about: Does your product fit your market? Is it what they want? If so make it, and get it to them, at optimal profit. Design and Advertising are just players in the the Marketing function of a good business.

Comment on I want a better bank, not a new best friend by Mathew Sanders

Mathew Sanders — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:49:29 +0000

Switching banks is also kind of a scary idea, and also if you have automatic payments, and money being debited quite a pain as well.

I remember reading about a US bank that had a service where they sent you a shoe box each month that you added you’re receipts which they then scanned to give you a digital record and did some book keeping.

When I travel I ultimately end up loosing a credit and/or debit card and banks will send out a replacement card to an overseas address, but refuse to have a PIN loaded onto it rendering it basically worthless. This makes me furious because I can’t see why this can’t be done over phone banking (where you enter a PIN to get access to fund transfers etc) or before travel issue you with an extra card in the case that it will get lost.

In the past 12 months I’ve asked for advice from banking staff around my accounts, and the first time I got vague information that didn’t leave me any better off, and the second the consultant (who was an investment specialist) tried to get me to switch accounts to a term deposit that had a lower interest rate than my high interest savings account – which was very concerning.

For the record, I have accounts with Kiwi Bank and BNZ, and I’m not really happy with either, but I do like that BNZ seems to be trying experiments with new account concepts like the total money account.