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If you don’t have any constructive feedback to share, perhaps it’s not worth posting at all. Monzo have already said that they will make sure that this design doesn’t cause accessibility issues so you seem to be completely wasting your time with posts like this.

It’s up to you of course but I have better things to do :wave:

Alex, I provided feedback on the mock-up. Accessibility is a very important issue. I believe my points are valid and, as you and Monzo designers grow older, or acquire sight issues, you too will appreciate that good design is about functionality and not just making something look pretty.

We have different views on this. I’m disappointed for you to get upset about that. I thought the community respected different points of view and that contributors were friendly and respectful to each other?

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The thing with colour is that it affects everyone differently, and there are different issues (dyslexia, colour blindness, cataracts, etc) that colour affects in unique ways.

WCAG and subjective tests are good places to start, but it’d be really nice to see Monzo themeable either with custom themes or with a few different, well-designed and unique themes. One, it’d be fun, and two - more importantly - it would let people pick colours that work for them.

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Statistically men suffer colourblindness more than women and it is theorised this is due to the differences in eye structure with the rods in the retina in groups of 3 for men and groups of 4 for women, which results in easier differentiation of subtle colour differences in shades of the same colour.

Most XX individuals are not tetrachromats. However, if an XX individual has a mutation of one type of cone cell, they will then have four types and potentially be tetrachromats. Most XX individuals with four cone cells, however, show no sign of increased colour gamut so it’s more complex than that.

An XY individual with a similar mutation will still only produce three types of cones - but one of them will be abnormal.

So, yes, it is related to XY individuals being more susceptible to genetic anomalies. But most XX individuals don’t have four types of cones (and most who do still aren’t functionally tetrachromatic).

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thanks for clarifying that, it was years ago I heard it on the radio so was not sure if I had remembered rightly. The detail you give is very interesting and well composed as always. Thanks

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No problem, I also didn’t mention - rods do not respond to colour. They’re the cells used for low light vision. Cones are are more specialised and respond to colour :slight_smile:

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Thanks

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+1 to this. :+1:

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Sorry if this has already been mentioned but the layout of the pulse graph is a lot better than the iOS design, are iOS users going to see the same interface or will it remain the same?

I hope the iOS version gets changed to use that UI. It looks a lot nicer…

The separator between each transactions and day is just ugly compared to the android version, it looks so much cleaner.

I hope they keep the hamburger menu. Keep the design language of the platform. This is like when a Linux/GTK+ app gets ported (lazily) to Windows (or vice versa).

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Monzo creating an app that could be customised would be a huge waste of resources right now.
Plus, customers can’t be trusted to keep it looking nice.

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Reminded me of this!:

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I know what you’re saying, but I believe we’ve already decided to ditch the hamburger menu, and it’s not due to not wanting to adhere to the differences between platforms, but simply because we’ve found that not many Android users actually use it.

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That could be because there isn’t much on it.

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Monzo is still following the design language of the platform (android in this instance).

Just look at the YouTube app, that’s not got a hamburger menu, it’s got navigation along the bottom - just like Monzo :sweat_smile:

It’s pretty much one or the other and in Monzo’s case, I think what they’ve done makes sense. I prefer the hamburger menu in a lot of apps but Monzo have made this bottom nav quite nicely

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I think that’s exactly the case. The hamburger has been setup to fail. As an android user I still click on it though by mistake on the Monzo app as it’s still where I expect to see everything.

I pull it out expecting to find more options sometimes. I often try to do that on Spotify too.

It does feel a bit like it’s been set up to fail so they can just copy the design they have for iOS devices.

People would probably use it if you put things on it they are likely to do regularly!

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