Another one saying the poll needs an option for no change…
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Monzo have already said it is not going to change, this is just looking at what options could be considered IF Monzo take on board it has not received universal support.
If you want to do your own Poll on Keep Pulse or Scrap it, feel free.
This thread was created in a positive light to collate suggestions on how Pulse could be implemented differently, and see which of them were more popular, IF and only IF Monzo relook at Pulse would the results have any use.
But once again any criticism, however constructive, of how Monzo have implemented or plan to implement something gets attacked.
This forum does not like open minds or open expression, just the warm glow of Monzo sheep bleating how perfect everything is. It makes you wonder it’s purpose, to help shape and improve the app or just to get the warm glow of approval.
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I was going to click the best option for me but then realised I would rather it stayed where it is. I think you’ll get many people just clicking the option which is least disruptive to them even though they would prefer it stay the way it is. Telling people not to vote if they like the design is a terrible way to ask anything in my opinion
This forum does not like open minds or open expression, just the warm glow of Monzo sheep bleating how perfect everything is.
@anon44204028, I disagree. There’s many places Monzo can improve and I’m totally in favour of the poll but it needs to reflect the realistic options. I would like to know how many people would change it at all. It’s not a have it or not question it’s a ‘do you like it the way it is? Should it auto hide? Should it have a separate screen? Etc’
Just shouting that you don’t like it and a couple other people don’t like it, therefore most people don’t like it is quite presumptuous I think.
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I’m not voting in the poll since I don’t think I have sufficient info to have an informed opinion on this so I don’t have any opinion 
It’s not in Monzo’s interest to piss off it’s users so I’m positive that whatever we end up with will be decent 
I’m actually way more interested in the features of the pulse than where it is etc. It can always be moved
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I think it is being massaged by staff members to just have traffic, ideally positive, because quiet forums are seen as in decline. Of course the reality is nothing spurs on conversation more than a bit of controversy.
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Hi Eve.
A Hamburger menu is a menu accessed thru a three horizontal line logo (which some think stylistically is like a patty inside a bun, hence the name).
With the use of a hamburger logo you can display more transaction data on screen.
Now the hamburger menu has been removed from the Android app it has been replaced by a menu bar along the bottom which eats into the screen space used to display the transaction list.
The introduction of either the Pulse graph or the bottom menu bar would have reduced space to display transactions, but introducing both has compounded the problem.
"But once again any criticism, however constructive, of how Monzo have implemented or plan to implement something gets attacked.
This forum does not like open minds or open expression, just the warm glow of Monzo sheep bleating how perfect everything is. It makes you wonder it’s purpose, to help shape and improve the app or just to get the warm glow of approval."
its not “being attacked” at all, its just saying that if we really want to find out what people think why leave out the option of keeping it where it is - if it was an open minded poll then it wouldn’t exclude leaving it as is to truly reflect what those that vote in it think 
as to “Monzo sheep bleating” hmmmmmm
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The hamburger menu is an interesting one. On android we almost expect the menu as it has been used for ages. In the same way we can expect certain behaviour because we have a hardware/on screen back button available in any app that isn’t full screen. This isn’t available on iOS so it can alter the UI options quite significantly.
For popups/modals/info screens on android you don’t even require an exit/back/close button because the support is there on the phone, on iOS it’s then required as ‘swipe back’ functionality isn’t always obvious to a user. These can cause quite heated discussions where I work between the android and iOS users when we are only supplied with a single set of designs for both platforms.
Personally I’d rather have the burger menu back than the 5 tabs we have now, but that’s my opinion as an android user. If I was on an iPhone again (I used to have a 5) I would probably feel differently about the tabs.
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Fair enough. I think we can probably all agree that the tabs are more discoverable than the hamburger menu 
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I’m going to be completley honest here…
After really playing around with it and getting used to how it actually functions, I love it. And all I want is for new features 
I genuinely can’t wait to see what Monzo do with Pulse, moving forward.
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I actually do like the pulse graph personally but i would like it to hide itself behind the ‘balance and spent today’ section when i start to scroll through my transactions.
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I think this would break when using the Pulse to scroll through past transactions, wouldn’t it? For instance, if I scroll right by two months on the Pulse, it scrolls my transaction list back to that date. But if the transaction list scrolling hid the Pulse, then the Pulse would disappear as I was scrolling it. I also sometimes scroll down the transaction list a bit, and then go to the Pulse to scroll left and right, or tap to position on a specific date. I think if the Pulse hid as I scrolled the transaction list, it would all get a bit messy.
Not saying that some form of hiding might not be useful, but just that I think it needs a bit more thought than just scrolling as you scroll the transaction list.
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If the scrolling to hide option were based on my idea…
…Correct me if I’m wrong but I couldn’t see another similar idea mentioned, I think there’s been a slight misunderstanding / miscommunication of it.
The idea is to hide it by default and you could scroll up and down the list without having the pulse displayed as well. However, if you did want to view the balance at the time of any transaction then you could pull the pulse down with a thumb swipe and scroll the list or the pulse as we currently do now.
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