Design Critique

Postbank pin- en chippassen

manufacturer: Postbank

I have three bank accounts (personal, business, shared), which means three ATM cards. In addition I have a 'chippas' card to pay at, for example, parking ticket and coffee machines. All in all I have four cards from the same bank in my wallet. My bank (the Dutch Postbank, currently being rebranded into ING) had the wonderful tradition of slightly updating the graphic design of its cards every three or four years or so. To me this was wonderful, because that usually meant that each of my cards had a different design, and I could distinguish them easily. Until recently one of my cards got stolen and another one broke. All of a sudden I found myself with a wallet full of very similarly looking cards, resulting in hastily searching my wallet for the right card, or even using the wrong cards at ATMs when I was not yet completely awake yet (morning commute). The problem is worsened by the fact that when the cards are in your wallet, you can't see the account numbers, only the edges (see picture).

 


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Placed by jaspervk
on Friday February 6 2009 1:10:22 pm

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Discussion (16)

  • demekah

    demekah wrote: 2009-02-11 18:29:16 You can get your own design on your card with the Postbank. so I really don't see the problem.

  • wrote: 2009-02-12 17:00:47 Yes, at about 10 euro per card. A bit expensive, and kind of idiotic that I have to pay to solve their design faults

  • Pedro

    Pedro wrote: 2009-02-12 19:22:30 I agree with Jasper.

  • wrote: 2009-02-12 19:39:22 Maybe, but that&#039;s the same with every bank, isn&#039;t it? At most banks you don&#039;t have the option of getting your own design on your card. <br /> <br /> I agree that it&#039;s strange that you have to have a different card for the chip.

  • wrote: 2009-02-12 22:48:53 True, this might not be a really Postbank-specific problem. Other banks might have the same issue, it&#039;s just that I only have Postbank passes.

  • sb107640

    sb107640 wrote: 2009-03-02 08:54:51 tippex on one dot on your bank that that we shall name "card one" to act as a braile system of identifcation two dots for card two and guess what? yep three dots for card three....it really aint science rocket..can i have somde design royalties now please?

  • wrote: 2009-03-02 13:57:02 just put an &quot;P&quot; at the top corner of the card with a feltmarker. Do this for every card, p for private, b for business, etc etc<br /> I use this method for a long time, it works!<br /> <br /> <a href='http://www.oooms.nl'>www.oooms.nl</a><br />

  • fkuenen

    fkuenen wrote: 2009-03-15 07:01:37 Hi Jasper,

    I now the problem you are talking about. I view years ago I have offered some bank to change to top of the card with a colored strip. So you can see it in your wallet. Each color defines the card type, for example; blue = credit card, green is debit card etc. The color would be collected in a ISO standard all banks can use it. This way you have bankcards categorized in your wallet. But there is downside if you mark bankcards in general. A potential thief knows directly which card he or she must go for. Btu in my union you could life with that because normally a thief will steal you complete wallet on not on card.

    But as like with many ideas no bank put it in production.

  • Daphnne

    Daphnne wrote: 2009-03-19 21:18:48 Waarom doe je je pasjes niet gewoon andersom in je portemonnee?
    Dan zie je namelijk wel je banknummers.

  • Daphnne

    Daphnne wrote: 2009-03-19 21:20:39 I'm sorry, the translation of my comment is a little weird, so here the same in English:
    'Why don't you just turn the cards, and put them otherwise in your wallet, so you can see the account numbers.'



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