Building a New Kind of Bank
summary
Monzo builds its banking stack in-house, runs a prepaid base of 400,000 prepaid users and a current-account preview with ~20,000 people, and keeps a five-person design team working in Sketch and GitHub. Design focuses on the 80/20 principle: reuse platform patterns and polish the critical 20% (welcome animations, onboarding). Recent outputs: modular transaction-detail templates, a Hot Chip onboarding animation that boosts trust, and a work-in-progress Android “pots” graph; community feedback comes from a 10,000 active forum and an open API used to prototype things like a talking piggy bank.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:20The team
- 8:38How we decide what to build
- 14:17Firstness
- 15:32Post Graph
- 25:04Piggy Bank
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