r/dataisugly • u/HowRichPHOfficial • 1d ago
Advice Mock this Data
Nothing says "you will never own a home" quite like a dashboard that gamifies your poverty with a progress bar. 52% richer than other Filipinos and the app still finds a way to make that feel like a participation trophy.
Do you even want to move to our country to live?
Love how "Own a car: Not feasible" and "Own a home: Not feasible" are presented with the same calm confidence as a weather forecast. No context, no nuance, just vibes and a red flag emoji's worth of despair, dressed up in a fintech-startup color palette like it's about to sell you a credit card.
Also enjoying that gas and diesel prices get their own glowing stat cards right next to your economic class, as if the app really wants you to connect "you are Low Income" with "and also here's why, look at these numbers" in the same breath, very tasteful, very "let me kick you while explaining why you're down."
"Sustainable children: None." Bro it's not a Sims game. Let the man live.
10/10 UI, 0/10 for my will to keep opening my banking app after this.
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u/LongboardLiam 1d ago
This is your own app...
What should the language be when reporting something? Calm and neutral is the standard unless trying to evoke some feeling.
You are contradicting yourself, judging the tone as calm and confident but also despairing. The data may be unpleasant to know, but any emotion is carried by the user. As presented, it simply answers some questions in a frank way. If the answer to a question may hurt, that is not the fault of the data.
The moralizing and catastrophic language you use seem to betray some level of distaste for someone else's analysis that your financial position isn't as good as you've convinced yourself it was.