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British banking
Monzo makes banking feel physical: confetti, drag gestures and playful yearly recaps. Our UX Bites also cover contextual insurance upsells, undoable payments and savings challenges.
Key takeaways from 14 Case Studies and 32 UX Bites
Drag a bank note into your wallet to get paid early, making a dry action feel physical
Abandon an insurance quote and Monzo offers a reminder for when your current policy ends
Turning on the gambling block lets you write a note that resurfaces if you try to switch it off

An analysis of Monzo’s 1p challenge, focusing on the middle slump, where progress slows and motivation quietly fades.
Delight can replace progress, but only temporarily
"The middle" is the real retention problem
Motivation needs contextualised reference points

Simple techniques to increase feature usage, retention and ultimately alter how users perceive the value of your product.
Reframing features to improve perceived value
Using context to boost feature retention
Designing perk flows that reduce churn, not just noise
They aren't exactly the future of customer service that we were promised. This is why you hate them though.
Reducing friction by setting clearer expectations
Avoiding ambiguity the that hurts conversions
Designing handoffs that feel comfortable
Deconstructing the notion that these banks have feature parity in 2023.
Historically, bank cards were relatively simple rectangles of plastic. But not any more.
A unique opportunity to revisit these 12 banks, re-benchmark them, and highlight what 900 days of progress looks like.
Their core products are incredibly strong, but the cracks start to appear when you get even deeper into their experiences.
There are some clear winners and losers here. But overall, the user experience of customer support is desperate for some innovation.
Although the challenger banks were considerably faster, all of the banks could improve the experience of using Open Banking.
Quite clearly, if you want to make international payments frequently you have to use a challenger bank, or Barclays.
Whilst the challenger banks have made this feature more accessible, they had a poor overall experience. Barclays was considerably better.
With a few exceptions, there wasnt a huge variance in the amount of effort, or time taken to send a payment from any of the banks.
The challenger banks were significantly quicker (in days) and required less effort (in clicks) to get an active account.
Their core product is often praised for being intuitive, but when you go a little deeper, does it give up any ground?
If features can be coded in minutes, thoughtful design is what wins
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