Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 days ago
Honestly, picking the destination first makes more sense.
But the primary law of UX is you don’t change shit up on people. I’d have taken a stand if I was on that team
If you think of it in physical terms , when you move something you have to grab it from its source then go to the destination.
Like even moving money to pay for something, you take out of your wallet and hand to the cashier.
Even computer filesystem management is: copy source destination, move source destination
It depends on how you look at it, and how it’s presented
You don’t fill a hole by grabbing dirt and finding a hole, you realize you need to fill a hole, and then you grab/buy materials to fill it in with.
It’s just a matter of approach. You can frame it in either direction
You still have to move dirt from source to destination, especially if there are multiple holes
Can also think like this, “I have an invoice that I need to pay. So I need to pay to there, let me figure out where to get the money from”, i.e. impetus-based thinking instead of process-based thinking.
This is in a personal bank account though not inter company business
ccunning@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Curious why you think destination first makes more sense.
I just can’t get over the idea that when you move a thing to a different place, you go to where the thing is first so you can take it to the new place.
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 days ago
Sure… If I want $300 in an account, that’s my goal. I don’t want to decrease another account by that amount
So my goal is to move X money into Y account, or maybe all but X money into Y account
The second half is where it comes from. It’s not the goal, it’s the means
But again as I said, flipping this is a worse solution than either direction
grue@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You must be an electrical engineer or something, since you’re apparently so used to thinking about flows backwards.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 days ago
Seems a convoluted way of looking at it to me, but i guess it’s just another case of different strokes for different folks.
theneverfox@pawb.social 1 day ago
I mean, I do this professionally, I took courses that break down what makes something feel intuitive
Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
When you pay a bill, do you select who you’re paying then the amount from whichever account, or do you select the amount from an account and then select the company you’re paying?