That’s the FAB (Floating Action Button) and I’ve grown to rely on it for an instant, major action on a FAB-ready display. But I do like the Material Design concept 
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My bug bear with starling is the inability to have custom budget periods and also the fact that you can’t pay standing orders and direct debits from spaces.
If they had that, I’d be tempted to use the account more.
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Yes a custom budget period for those of us paid mid–month would make the account pretty much perfect. At the moment I have to remember to have at least x pounds left on the first of the month, which is a bore.
Starling (Anne) has hinted it has something “better” than Bills Pots up its sleeve. I’m sceptical, but perhaps the Connected Card is the first glimpse of something innovative?
But since the Plus debacle I’m full–time Starling and really pleased at the rate of progress.
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But it doesn’t really feel like a FAB. Arguably, it doesn’t float and is too close to the bottom of the screen.
I’m not an expert, but it just feels wrong.
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Those type of circular buttons are usually for carrying out an action, such as adding a new item to a list. They aren’t intended to be used for navigation.
Bring back the swipe! 
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I like the new layout of Spaces (Pots) in latest update. Takes less time to load and looks cleaner.
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I’m so jealous of the payee screen and flow on Starling. It’s very very good. Reminds me of how rubbish Monzo’s management of payees are.
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It is excellent. My only improvement would be to be able to mark a payee as ‘me’ so that payments to my other accounts (at other banks) aren’t computed in Starling’s spending tally.
(Starling’s spending analysis is borked though, however you look at it.)
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I’m impressed with Starling of late. Quietly adding more and more features. They’ve definitely got the polish. Agree, the budgeting feature needs work.
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Not sure if this is new news, but It looks like starling have picked up another award
Sounds like someone will be treating themselves to a new shawl.
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They are saying they have been around for 3 years and won 3 banking awards (not a new one)
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I would kill for them to switch to showing a list of payee accounts rather than having to swipe through them one by one.
The swipe target is also really small. It should be most of the top half of the screen, but it’s just the account name and number.
Monzo’s account payee details screen is far better, especially with the Bank logo based on sort code.
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Starling offering the Bounce Back Loans could be a real masterclass.
Going off of twitter seems to be alot of people opening up accounts for the scheme, could prove a good way of keeping new users.
Be interesting to see the increase in account numbers over say the last week or so
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This blog by Anne Boden is excellent.
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Not sure what this relates to. Any ideas anyone?
The bounce back loans. Seems some people are being rejected when they’re eligible (or say they are)
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A bank is of course under no obligation to offer a loan to anybody. I doubt every single person I’ve seen complaining under Martin Lewis’ tweet is as ineligible as Starling claim though. It a fine line though and I’m sure it’s difficult to truly ascertain a business’ viability in the short space of time they have to get these loans out.
One of the main reasons behind the bounce back loans (and why the govt are underwriting 100% of them) is that the banks should not be assessing the viability of a business before issuing them.
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