Helpful Banking, A research-led branch redesign rethinking how a high-street bank serves its local neighbourhood.
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NatWest · 2010 · UK

Helpful Banking

A research-led branch redesign rethinking how a high-street bank serves its local neighbourhood.

Helpful Banking, overall view

A bank branch is usually somewhere you leave as fast as you can.

We made one you might want to stay in.

The bank as a third place.

Client

NatWest

Role

Lead Designer

Year

2010

Services

Experience Design, Retail Banking, Service Design

The challenge

Let's Talk lounge area
The insight

Flagship branch atrium
Private consultation pod corridor
The outcome

Pod consultation detail
The impact

UK-wide

Network rollout

1st

To open the branch as a third space

Active/passive

Zoning model introduced

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