We're working on a new look for the Monzo app

Absolutely love the new version I’ve been able to enable through the lab tab in settings. My partner was annoyed he didn’t have my lay out until I showed him as he found the old layout confusing.

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iOS 2.6

My 2p on the gesture…

The new gesture is great, saves reaching into the opposite corner every time you want an overview. I see what people are saying about it seeming like 2 actions, I really can’t see the problem with it? It’s quick, gives haptic feedback. Overall a great improvement. It’s slightly awkward going from feed fully open to accounts screen using the gesture on the XS at least. I feel this may be fixed by only having 2 positions for the tray, rather than 3. And there is no “ripple” of the tray to let you know you can interact with it. I thought that was meant to be a thing?

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Still wondering why help needs to be so prominent on the bottom rather than a smaller icon instead of summary now? I think I’ve clicked it twice in the last couple of months. It seems a waste of good space.

Bugs

Been present for at least 3 versions now. Entering the account screen loads half way through your profile picture, not at the top.

Clicking freeze doesn’t have a freeze effect on the card.

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I think Bruno explained this further up in this enormous thread.

It saves wasting time building features for both platforms that turn out not being any good. It’s cheaper time wise to have just built it for one OS and find it doesn’t work than both. This way different things can be tested simultaneously and successful tests copied over to the other OS.

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I would definitely agree with these comments and I really like the new layout, keep up the great work and thanks @bruno for keeping us up to date.

I like the new gesture, but it does feel a little awkward given the two stage drawer, it would feel nicer if it was more fluid.

Moving the help link to where the summary icon is would be good.

Thinking about the home button, it would be nice if you could mark your favourite account/pot and home always takes you to the feed for this account?

It would be good if the settings cog would always take you to settings page and not the profile page and if your picture took you to the profile page, it seems a little mixed up right now.

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Because that just slows the whole thing down and you end up with engineering teams waiting for each other to catch up at different points.

I imagine it would be hugely inefficient, particularly given the differen development (OS) team sizes.

Given the opt-in nature of labs stuff, if something isn’t working for you it’s possible to opt out again for the moment.

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Loving the new gesture great work guys

When you have the account card behind a pot, it would be great to be able to tap the account card to go back to the transaction/account view, it is annoying to have to swipe all the time.

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Tapping the Home tab will do this I believe (Android only at the moment).

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Yup as above :point_up:

Tap once to go to your current account, twice to your joint account and three times to go to credit cards :boom:

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Yes this would be great

Thanks, that is helpful, doesn’t feel as obvious as tapping the card though (as you can for the pots)

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I wonder how long it would have taken me to figure it out too if I hadn’t read it on here.

That’s been in my head about quite a few of the features (tapping the blue pill, for example)

Brb off to tap the blue pill :eyes:

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Not sure if it is new nav related, but I often set pots with a round number as a target and find when you hit exactly 50% it gives this notification and I find it odd that it states more than 50% when it is 50%?! On this pot my target was £300 and it had just hit £150.

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What sinister cricket related revenge are you saving up for?! :cricket_bat_and_ball:

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It depends on what happens in the next month or so but based on the first test it is looking rather more rather than less sinister!

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2.60 iOS - yeah, really not liking this ‘pull down’ to access accounts. Don’t think it’s intuitive and like someone said earlier, I wouldn’t have known about it if it wasn’t for reading the forum.

As mentioned by others, the animation is pretty poor and I can see myself doing this by accident many times.

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The pot creation flow is really frustrating;

Despite choosing “Create a Pot” rather than “Create a savings pot” I still then have to select “Regular Pot” on the next screen, and then once again again confirm I don’t want to open a savings pot in the next screen.
3 clicks to open a pot, 2 of which are insisting I don’t want a savings pot, despite specifically not clicking to open a savings pot!
As a frequent regular pot user/creator, it’s really frustrating.

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…and tapping back takes you back to the transaction drawer screen rather than back to the accounts screen.