Vertical Card Discussion (All Banks) šŸ’³

Feedback & Ideas
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You are :100:correct there, I donā€™t know why I said that, I just guess I just got caught up in the moment.

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Hey Team,

I wasnt sure if you guys have had a chance to see the discussion on the idea of a new vertical redesign of the iconic Monzo Card. I thought it was crazy just how passionate the comunity was getting over it.

https://community.monzo.com/t/starling-bank-new-vertical-cards/43557

Kyle

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Hi @KyleRisi Iā€™ve merged your threads to keep them all together and Iā€™ve flagged it up to Monzo to see if anyone is able to comment.

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Great work Andy, thanks.

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monzocards2

I did a slight tweak to the cards to incorporate a transparent area much like the N26 cards although Iā€™m not sure it will work in the real world as the mag strip would show throughā€¦ I also updated the Joint card to say ā€œJoint Accountā€ as per official cards

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Hi all Iā€™ve renamed this thread to cover all vertical card discussion not just Starling as itā€™s grown arms and legs somewhat!

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I canā€™t believe we havenā€™t ran a poll on this yet!

What do you prefer?

  • Vertical card
  • Horizontal card
  • I donā€™t care

0 voters

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Hmm, I wonder if a short mag stripe would workā€¦

Actually, it wouldnā€™t as it wouldnā€™t work in ATMā€™s. Damn.

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Hey Everyone!

Vertical cards have been really hot chatter over the past few days soā€¦
Weā€™ve decided to dedicate it to itā€™s own topic. Any posts relating to card rotation should have been moved here including those from the Starling Feedback thread.

Feel free to continue the discussion below :slight_smile:

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A vertical card would be cool I guess. That said, I would much prefer you to invest time in the app rather than a new card. Iā€™m looking to switch from starling to Monzo because Iā€™m frustrated with their lack of progress like budgets etc. This was in the pipeline last September and has been put on hold ever since! They also donā€™t use emojiā€™s enough :rofl:

Edit: see look at that, first post with an emoji and I unlocked a badge! Thatā€™s what Iā€™m talking about :sunglasses:

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The app and its features is the Product teams and the engineers domain. A new card design would originate from the marketing team. I doubt a new card design would even impact development at all.

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This begs a question @simonb
The folks who designed the prepaid card then went on to design the current account card, and have just designed the joint account card.

What are they going to do next?

Or are there some debit card designers trudging around London from bank to bank looking for cards to design :wink:

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One assumes there would be a designer somewhere in the process. UIā€™s donā€™t tend to get designed by engineersā€¦

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This may provide an insight into how they are structured:

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Yeah of course, in my experience the UI designer usually sits within the Product Team. Iā€™m not sure how it works at Monzo. A new design could be cracked out in less than a week, feedback gathered via the pragmatic approach through the community, tweaked then off to marketing to be processed. But that depends what kind of designer does the designs. You could have a marketing designer do it since itā€™s closely linked to brand. Or the UI designer. Depends on structure or resource available I guess. Ultimately my point is this shouldnā€™t effect progress of the product.

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Thatā€™s true. If itā€™s non impact then Iā€™m all for it. Iā€™m just going off starlings (1 year) to rotate a card roundā€¦ :flushed: that could be an unfair comparison though. :upside_down_face:

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I get ya, itā€™s so frustrating when a business becomes stagnant. Though the main reason I went for monzo over starling was because monzo seem to be so swift with new feature releases; well MVPs anyway. There is a lot of features are still yet to be finished. It is impressive how customer centric monzo is though, itā€™s truly impressive. However Monzo could also potentially follow the same path as Starling and slow down. But itā€™s the ride that holds monzos appeal.

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I completely agree. I came to Monzo originally because I could use the top-up card to budget my money weekly because Iā€™ve always been pretty rubbish with that. So it was really handy. Then I switched to starling because Monzo didnā€™t have a current account and it meant I could see exactly where all my money was going each month. Now though, Monzo has over taken starling big time. Starling donā€™t even count standing orders as bills which was a pain for rent etc. Iā€™ll switch to Monzo as soon as my mortgage has gone through but I have to wait for that first. :roll_eyes: The budget and commited spending stuff is the most important thing for me. Although I think it would be really handy if commited spending was added to its own pot each month and taken directly from there so I only see the money I can spend. One for the future maybe :wink:

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This is what summary already does if setup in the right way :slight_smile:

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