Concept
Imagining a personal finance app
Summary
As part of a mini hackathon event that took place over 24 hours, I grouped up with two other members of the design team to create our vision of a finance and budgeting app.
Made at
Bankrate (2020)
Other creative credits
Ricky Carlton (designer)
Ryan Freeze (designer)
Roles
Visual designer
UX designer
Project goals
Create a delightful personal finance and budgeting app that we would want to use ourselves, that also leveraged Bankrate’s unique marketplace and ecosystem.
The process
Since this was entirely conceptual, we had zero product or business restrictions, and simply just had a ton of fun brainstorming and creating this one.
Everything starts with competitive analysis. All three of us used personal budgeting apps or were familiar with those that were available at the time.
We gathered both visual and feature inspiration, and established what would set us apart from our competitors’ app offerings.
Working in Figma, we split off to tackle different parts. After establishing the overall IA of the app, my focus was on the overall UI design, budgeting, and dashboard sections.
Dashboard widgets
These were designed for quick at-a-glance takeaways, where you could tap to see more.
Ideally, the dashboard would be customizable with the widgets that are most important to you, in the order that you want to see them.
This was done very close to when widgets for iOS were introduced, so a few of them were also on our prototype's home screen.
Results