Simplify splash screen again

Bart

The new splash screen now includes the pay off. Other than the somewhat off letter spacing, it makes the splash screen less clean and more annoying. If you cannot create a ‘skeleton screen’, the best alternative is to just reuse the app icon and resize or crop it different so it won’t add new information and it feels like a zoom. You could add a transition afterwards like the Twitter app. But adding new information to a splash screen, nah. Not so clean.

JohnDo

Bart Hi Bart!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts 💭. Could you help me with a screenshot so I have a better understanding what you mean?

Always interested in design discussions :)

Have a great evening 👍

Bart

John Do I cannot share screenshot with Together🙁

JohnDo

Bart If you use the web interface you can! 👍 I think for now I don't exactly know what mean.

vampjon

He means the splash screen that appears (on iOS at least) for a short time while the app is loading. It is basically a bunq rainbow colours wallpaper, with the bunq logo in white, but since this week's app update it includes the "Bank of the free" slogan under the bunq logo, somewhat surprisingly, since we haven't seen that slogan used anywhere for a while as far as I know.

JohnDo

Jonathan Thnx Johnathan for the visualization! 👍

Well well, bit surprised here... but mostly in a postive way. I have told bunq numerous times that although I like the unlike-any-other slogan they should not to use, simply because if you to make a name, people got to understand what it is you are selling. In ads and commercials it is almost never clear what bunq is or does. So, the return of bank-of-the free is far better!

But, bank of the free now contradicts the vibe Ali always creates in interviews, "bunq isn't a bank but an IT company with a banking license".... Djoeri even quotes Bill Gates : you need banking, but you don't need a bank 🏦.

So, bunq has got to ditch the 'bank' word again. Yes they do. I would call the subtitle "banking got reinvented" because that is exactly what they did!

Sorry for my off topic remarks. To stay on topic: the alignment is way off!

JanBrodda

I have a divided opinion on this topic. On the one hand, it doesn't matter to me how bunq designs the logo on the splash screen, and I still think it looks totally okay. On the other hand, the letter spacing in "FREE" is indeed a bit off (based on the screenshot) and I don't really understand why they spent time changing the logo when the old one was at least as good as the current. But maybe they had a good reason for that, it would help if an employee can give us some insights on that topic. 🤔

vampjon

John Do Indeed I am very surprised to see the "free" slogan, although I do personally prefer it to the current slogans, it almost feels like an old graphic is accidentally being shown in this latest app update. The splash screen is only visible for a portion of a second under normal circumstances so it's sort of "blink and you miss it" (I had to make a video, pause it, and take a screenshot of that to catch it properly...)

JohnDo

Jonathan I asked bunq, and it isn't a mistake. They wanna move back to the free part.

vampjon

John Do Fascinating, so in that case we can look forward to seeing the slogan in more places I presume... 🤔

PH

Don‘t like it, too. It looks very cheap now and not so simple as before. Would like to get the old screen back... without annoying animation.

Roeshimi

IMHO bunq has more important things to fix than a splash screen that is visible for a split second when starting the app :)

marcozima

+1 to have it back without the pay off

Elise

Hi all,

Thanks for sharing your feedback! We'll take it into account and be sure to let you know if there is an update on this 👍.

Cheers!

WJanson

Hi all! 👋

This small little error with the kerning is fixed in the latest version of the app that just hit the App Store 🌈

Enjoy your Friday! 🎉