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Somewhere, deep within Wells Fargo HQ, there was a depressed developer in a windowless office that died a little inside when asked to make this.
I worked with the dev who wrote this at Wells Fargo. To be fair, they do have windows in their office.
I worked with the dev who wrote this at Wells Fargo
You can see this in action by trying to login using dummy credentials here: https://wellsoffice.wellsfargo.com/ceoportal/ :-)
That's kind of silly. But as a Wells Fargo customer, I've never seen it while using their website, and I use the site to check my accounts and transfer money between accounts once or twice a week.
https://a248.e.akamai.net/6/248/3583/000/wellsoffice.wellsfa... https://a248.e.akamai.net/6/248/3583/000/wellsoffice.wellsfa...
This sort of fake-loader animated GIF is pretty common; it's just a slightly more advanced version of a spinner GIF. I don't think it's really that bad. What would be bad is if this page would accept a parameter to redirect you to somewhere, but it appears it doesn't do that -- it just closes itself. Presumably this page appears in an overlay that then closes itself.
This is one of those things that is done by people going "We need our customers to 'feel secure'". I get the rationale, but is there actually any data that suggests this gives that actual feeling? That users "feel" more secure? Or are more trusting of the site? Or is this just cargo-cult UX? edit: I've seen this on too many financial apps to think it's an isolated incident. It's clearly a "thing" in financial apps (T…
I worked for a company that implemented a similar technique and it had positive results. The main features of one of their web based software products was a report generator. The report was quite complex and included a lot of calculations based hierarchical relationships of entities in the system. To build this report by hand would probably take hours, but the queries and calculations were all highly optimized and co…
This is one of those things that is done by people going "We need our customers to 'feel secure'". I get the rationale, but is there actually any data that suggests this gives that actual feeling? That users "feel" more secure? Or are more trusting of the site? Or is this just cargo-cult UX? edit: I've seen this on too many financial apps to think it's an isolated incident. It's clearly a "thing" in financial apps (T…
