Hello all. My first time posting about a feature.
When you open the app, it shows the home tab, with the graph at the top, then the list of Today’s transactions, and maybe Yesterday’s, and further dates in the past etc. But Today and Yesterday don’t have any dates/name of days next to them, so without scrolling down or playing with the graph, the app doesn’t immediately tell me what today’s date is, which could be relevant to direct debits, payments etc, or to have an immediate overview of my balance relative to how much of the month.
Seems a simple thing to add in? Could just add the date and day next to the Headings of Today & Yesterday?
I’m more of a days of the week kind of guy. Most days I don’t need to know the actual date off the top of my head, except when I’m doing something that requires specific dates, like banking.
Yes this on iPhone. The date on iOS is only visible by default from the lock screen. If you’re using the phone, you don’t know the date unless you pull down notifications or look at the calendar app, which you may or may not have.
A bit of design consistency would be welcome. If Monzo thinks I need to know the day and date of transactions 2 days and older, why not yesterday and today? Seems an odd choice.
You have to start the date somewhere otherwise it would say today, yesterday, the day before that, Monday, Sunday, sunday (but the week before coz you didn’t use the card for a week) and that would get confusing
which would be fine if all financial interactions were like that, but they’re not. For example, I know I get paid on the 28th of each month. When I open the app and see I have £X in my account, it would be handy and incredibly simple to be able to quickly see that today is the 26th, so I know that the £X has to last me 2 days. Today/tomorrow is useless usage in real world financial planning.
The cognitive load of having a header of ‘Today - Thursday 26th’ seems negligible.
Well the app displays Tuesday 24th, Monday 23rd, so are you seriously telling me the UI/UX will explode if we add the five characters of Today in front of the date? I have an iphone SE which is one of the narrowest screens around these days, and it would fit in just fine.
And if dates are unimportant to you, why not get rid of all dates from the app completely? Makes zero sense in a financial app to have days & dates for some but not all transactions. What of people with cognitive disabilities, elderly people with dementia, who do not remember and process time & dates in the same way?
Being able to set calendar dates would be really useful so you can track your spend from the day you got paid your salary till the next, you could also set the budgets accordingly.
