Design Challenges

0% APR and More - hmm does it really pay to discover?

Yesterday I finally received my new discover card, you may remember how I wrote about the hazzles to obtain this card a week or two ago. Well, today I went online to sign up for online billing acces. To my surpise the process was painless and took about two minutes - not bad after the four days it took to complete the application process.

I like their "dashboard" and while exploring it came to a few options such as custom emails to let you know when a purchase exceeds a certain amount and a reminder that your payment date is approaching, etc... I know some other credit card providers offer services like this, it was just nice to be able to pick and choose. This "dashboard" is well designed and very user friendly, but what really impressed me was this new browser add-on that masks your real credit card number and substitutes with a fake number that links to your one time purchase. Not only does it provide a fake number, but it fills in the mailing and personal info for you with that on the discover database.

Now that is customer options to the max!!!!!!!