Utility Mode

Enter F10 to enter Utility Mode. Check our Dell Documentation.

In the Adaptec RAID management, you need to create Array. Notes, use Insert to add drive. After you have done, you can either Build, Clear or Quick Init it.

RAID-1 Setup Successfully

Setup is done.

A blueprint sketch, circa 2000, by Jack Dorsey, envisioning an SMS-based social network

Web Blueprint service

Their posting guidelines is vague! You never get it right the first time because it was never mention in the ad posting form. Instead, you learn it every time when your ad was rejected, forcing you to redo everything!

I wrote an email to them and ‘surprisingly’ I got a reply out of a blue.

“In your ad description, you should explain about your services/product in a brief explanation, not too long and not too short. It will be enough for the reader to understand what you are selling.”

“not too long and not too short”? It sounds kinky!

I am even more confuse now :)

It was not the first time my mum couldn’t find the expiry date on a product. It is never too hard to print a clear one to make users’ life easier. But, what the fact is, how a packaging designer or the expiry-date-printer/integrator want to think from my mum’s view who don’t read English, or my view where I hate those date which I have to guess between Month and Date. Why don’t they use this format 10 Dec 2008, than 101208 (or 121008, or 081210, or 08xxxx…… never ending…)

The word Disable is an action, who knows?

Radio button is good for a user to make a choice, telling you what they want in the quickest way. But, many designers fail to go further with it. Fields not required should be hidden from users than showing it.

Return box is not relevant to One Way user

The action to choose from dropdown should directly translated as ‘Users are interested in that particular item’. What if someone change the dropdown without ticking the checkbox?

The check box is redundant!

I have recently attended their private launch of the new Maybank2U 2.0 website. If only Maybank2U knows not all users are techy, and their new website doesn’t seem to address to this problem at all!

A common problem for many System Interface Designers is, they believe everyone knows hitting Ctrl+V is Paste, and no one will choose the Paste function from File menu.

The old Maybank website

Look at the amount of information, links and pictures in this page. Yes, this is catchy in a bad way- distracting users’ attention on important notice and security alert. Choice is not good, in this case.

This might easily help everyone (Including Mr. Ctrl+V and Mr. File) to fight phishing. This cost less to develop, no consultancy fee to pay (I’m happy to share), and most importantly, to convince more people to use Maybank2U!

34 pages A4 size (Free)
60 pages, 4.25″ x 6.88″, perfect binding (USD8.23)

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Just look at my earlier post on Jo-jo’s Challenge. We have collected about 33 feedbacks for just one form, extracted from an online hotel booking website.

This is the current website of Maybank2U. The Maybank2U team done a great work to build this from scracth. It is not easy, especially when you’re dealing with large number of users and important data. The decision to revamp come at the right time. If the old website was built to attract more visitors (during those days when it was new), the revamped version should have focused in the conversion rate or meeting goals. In short, to increase Maybank’s revenue and to decrease Maybank’s operating cost!

I managed to take this picture showing some important practices during the presentation. Too bad, the pages in the new website are still fighting for space :)

Allow me to quickly go through some of my humble and nothing-new feedbacks. I would love to jump to the end of the post which I am going to propose and touch the painful part of the change – The Fundamental!

Don’t be surprised, many visitors can not tell the difference between the two pictures in quick.

I couldn’t find the login box in the main page like what we have in Paypal? A touching personalization can be redundant. Quick math, if you will to login 100 times to Maybank2U in your lifetime, that means the New User link will appear 99 times to you unused. Not just that, you have just forced someone to make 99 decisions of not clicking on that particular link. Don’t make a choice.

Most often, user experience has a lot to do with the Contact us form. Imagine, it serves as the best time and place where you can turn someone’s experience of using your website better. They can be your best friend who promote the website for you, not of fancy technology but some little nice experience. A good form receives fewer support request, saving operational cost greatly. I have reviewed the Contact us form of Alliance Bank in the past, check it out. An example of Contact us form in good use.

Sign up form – one of the most important page where visitors are converted into Maybank2U users. Yet, too many options, and I wonder why the online method should not be given priority as like the big button in WordPress. Yet, this is not much different from the first version. This explains why 1,500 pages are way too difficult to focus your bullet (budget and time) on. Probably that answer to Yowchuan’s question on how much is the cost of revamp during the preview launch today.

I would love to have location map if this is not too much of work :)

The Fundamental Feedback?

My Maybank2Me directs me to a secure page with big login button. There is a clear instruction to tell people how to ensure they are landed in the non-phishing page. I don’t have to choose if I am a new user, the system will do this dirty job for me. My online system reminds me if there is a recurring payment to make such as rental and the list go on…

The rest of information such as banking, credit card, lifestyles updates, promotions, sign up instructions and contact us form are separated from the online banking system.

Who knows, I could have one version for people like my dad? Lite, easy to use, and probably they could belong to the last group of users who will continue ‘supporting’ the physical banks :)

Keep it up, Maybank2U Team!

I must be kidding. Yes, I don’t have a Maybank2U account.

Some related posts I have written in the past. They have a lot to do with UI.

- Truly first come first serve system must be discriminative!
- Acmamall.com, more stones needed
- What’s system design to do with marketing?
- I Hate Big Pencil

You would probably get the same answer if you are asking someone before a car was invented. The Maybank2U website has about 1 million active users now. This is the best real data one can have when come to revamping a website. You have all the answers, from percentage of people who never change their password, to average amount of transaction in details.

I was skeptical especially when there are too much user involvement during the user experience studies. Various test are included but this can eventually turn out to be a faster horse. Yes, everyone fancy about uploading and sharing videos, but no one will tell the founder of YouTube to build it that way.

When asked about the estimation of the increase of conversion after the revamp, I was told by Shareza that they are expecting the current active users to grow from 1 million to 1.5 millions in three months. In layman terms, this means an additional 500 thousands users will become active with the new design, if number of visitors remains the same (or 50% increase of visitors while conversion rate remains).

Few groups of potential active users come into my mind, including my dad who is computer illiterate, locals who speak just Bahasa, Mandarin or Tamil, international users who are not speaking English, my brother-in-law who want everything from font-size to input box big… Not to mention myself who just want to get my transaction done with shortest possible click, doesn’t really care if it is PBEOnline or Mayban2U.

The new revamp reduces number of pages from 3,000 to 1,500, which is still way too much to digest. Why not 10 or 20 pages? To me, Google search engines has only 2 pages: main page and search result page. It is about getting things done.

Together with Maybank2U team and their partners, they are some famous bloggers who are invited to try out the system. As for two of us, probably thanks to Yowchuan’s post on Maybank downtime earlier.

I was thinking that is would be some serious user experience testing there but it turns out to be too-good food and goodies bag which I’m less interested :)

One good thing about inviting bloggers are, you get your press releases out faster than any other conventional media:

snsBlog: Maybank2U 2.0 Preview
RedesignMalaysia: Exclusive Maybank2u 2.0 Preview
Earnestly Speaking: The new M2U: Impressions

Steve Jobs said he never listens to people. People would have said they want a faster horse (Henry Ford). Companies do it more as gestures, more than mining people for their ideas.

Lot of time, people don’t know what they want until you have get put the final product in front of them! If Akio Morita listen to their customers, we will never get the Walkman today.

Why? Steve and Akio Morita doesn’t spend time to study their users, because they themselves are already the best user experience expert!

When asked why iTunes works? Steve explained that illegal download through is free but taking some time to find the right song. iTunes, provides a better User Experience and you are assured with song quality and reliability. We can’t talk someone to stop downloading songs illegally, but we can give you Carrot. “Our carrot is, better User Experience… and that will cost you USD1 only,” said Steve.

Recently, we are revamping our travel guidebook. It is not rocket science or any marketing research on age-group of our travelers, or any ‘convenient’ information to fill in the guidebook – it is User Experience, to spent less than 3USD before the trip.

“I want a ‘car’!,” said Pin

Some other reading on User Experience:
How Not to Receive Feedback from Your Customer
Upload your picture to complete order?
What is the word?