Bank Rules - Tab and select functions when entering detail
Xero UX designers seem to be under the impression that users want to select accounts by scrolling though a list of 100 entries every time.
You removed the ability to search for the appropriate account by typing the account name when adding payroll categories a while ago. Most recently, you've removed this from the Bank Rules screen without having to use extra clicks.
Anywhere we're supposed to select an account, either tabbing or clicking into the field and typing the name of the account should search for and select the account, as it used to everywhere and as it still does on Reconcile and Cash coding screens.
I appreciate you finally making some effort to have a consistent UI after years of beta-testing in production, and the new design is more legible and clean, but you have to stop decreasing usability in the name of aesthetics.
Max Sandery
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Max Sandery
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Thanks Tanya, great to hear I'm not the only one to notice.
This sort of arbitrary decrease in usability are what drove our practice away from MYOB to Xero, so I hope Xero turns these trends around.
Xero has 3-4 kinds of Chart of Account dropdowns now, despite this change supposedly being part of a push for consistent UI/UX - some weird uses of their limited dev time.
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Tanya Flintoff
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Couldn't agree more. The amount of keystrokes has tripled because tab no longer selects an account or dropdown field and then move to the next field, you have to type the name of the account, arrow key down, hit enter and THEN tab to the next field. Nothing like making one less efficient when upgrading software.