This budgeting app is tailored for university students like me, looking to manage their finances effectively. It automatically categorizes card expenses into essential groups like groceries, dining, and textbooks, while providing visual spending insights.
Challenge
Questions we would like to answer
How might we
How might we create an intuitive and engaging budgeting app for university students that simplifies financial management, encourages responsible spending, and fosters financial literacy?
Mindmap
Competitive analysis
Outcomes
We overtake our competitors in areas like:
User persona
User interviews
Questions we asked-
User journey map
Outcomes
Structure
Features
Personalized Dashboard: Displays total balance, savings, and emergency fund, offering a snapshot of the user's financial health.
Category Management: Allows users to track spending by categories such as Restaurants, Fuel, Shopping, etc., with options to add more categories as needed.
Detailed Budget Controls: Each spending category can have individual budget settings, including alerts for spending limits and visualization of spending trends over time.
Account Management: Capability to manage multiple bank and card accounts from a single interface, facilitating a comprehensive view of all financial activities.
Transaction Monitoring and Alerts: Features include payment reminders for regular expenses like phone and Wi-Fi bills, along with the ability to track new and existing budgets, and view detailed payment histories.
The response we received
Wireframes
Surface Design
I created a final color palette, text library, buttons, placeholder logo and icons as we moved towards the final design. Since we expect the app to be used primarily at night or in dark places, we went with a default dark theme.
Final screens
