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Apple Introduces New eCommerce Portal With Upgraded UX

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With most of Apple ’s retail stores remaining closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the tech giant is introducing a new hub to streamline the shop-from-home experience. The new portal offers an enhanced user experience (UX) that enables people to chat with tech specialists and learn more about contactless delivery options.

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Apple To Shutter Houston Stores Again

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As instances of the coronavirus increase in Texas, Apple will shutter seven of its Houston-vicinity retail locations once again. Apple closed shops again in North Carolina, Florida, Arizona and South Carolina last week for like rationale, and has reportedly re-shuttered a total of 18 retail locations across the U.S. “We locations.”.

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Is UX The Key To Mobile Wallet Breakout?

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With nearly one in four consumers trying Apple Pay this year, according to the PYMNTS Apple Pay Adoption Tracker , there’s been a steady increase in use of and interest in the mobile wallet since late 2014, when only 9 percent of those surveyed used it to make a purchase. Importance of nailing UX.

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Big Tech’s Big Shadow Over FIs

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These investments have to shift toward making more channels easily available … whether it’s app or online or voice or chat-based instruction. If issuers and banks don’t do that, he said, Apple, Google, Samsung and a whole host of Big Tech players are ready to step in and do so — taking away FI customers in the process.

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Fashion App ASOS Adds Image Search Feature

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Searching by images has become one of the more popular ways to find something online. With companies like Pinterest and Facebook, we’ve seen an uptick in visual images appearing online. ASOS’ head of product and UX, Richard Jones, commented to Forbes on the company’s decision to add on the image search feature.

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Create More Accessible Web Design for Disability Using These 3 Scenarios

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People are doing more and more online, from ordering groceries, to medications, and even car shopping. In today’s world, it seems that anything can be ordered online, and for most people, it can. But for individuals with disabilities, it may be more challenging or even impossible to access and accomplish these tasks online.

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Does ‘Google Checking’ Foreshadow Big Tech, FinTech Payments Changes?

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Google’s expertise is in UX design,” he noted. “By The notion of creating an everyday app ecosystem – à la WeChat and Alipay in China – is the ambition of every player, from Amazon to Apple to Facebook to PayPal … and Google. Consider, he said, how the Apple Card came into the market. Google’s Aim.

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