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Luke logs into the MoneyManager app and is greeted by screen 1. He selects "Register", and is led to screen 2. He enters his email (skywalker@imperial.edu) and creates a password, then selects "Register".  He is led to screen 4, where he selects “Create/modify Budget”. He is then led to screen 5. In the budget per month box, he enters $300. Under the “Food” category he enters $175, under "Clothing" he enters $75, and he adds a new category that he calls “Recreation”, assigning $50. He selects “Save Budget”, which returns him to screen 4. On this screen, he selects “Share Your Budget”, which leads him to screen 12; he enters his father’s email, iamyourfather@deathstar.com, and hits "Share" (Vader ignores this email for a while). Luke quits his app. Periodically throughout the month he adds his new expenses by signing into the app (which brings him to from screens 1->3->4), clicking on “Enter Income/Expense”, and adding the expense in screen 6 by clicking Expense, selecting the appropriate category, entering the amount, leaving the “Recurring” setting as “Once”, and clicking “Add to Budget”.

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Luke wants to share his budget with his father, so he selects “View”, which leads him to screen 6. He selects “Share Budget”, which leads him to screen 8. He enters his father’s email, iamyourfather@deathstar.com, and hits “Share Budget” (Vader ignores this email for a while). Luke quits his app. Periodically throughout the month, he adds his new expenses by signing into the app (which brings him to from screens 1a->2), clicking on “Income/Expense”, and adding the expense in screen 4 under Expenses, selecting the appropriate category, entering the amount, leaving the “Recurring” setting as “Once”, and clicking “Save Income and Expenses”.

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The design also includes "+" and "-" icons for users to quickly add multiple categories, income, expenses, or email addresses to share a budget with. This greatly increases efficiency - if a user waits until the end of the week to input all accumulated receipts, he would not have to input each item individually and have to navigate back to the same screen multiple times. This feature is very intuitive and thus learnable as well. In addition, the "-" icons make it easy for a user to recover from the error of adding an extra category, expense, or email, although accidentally deleting an item is not quite as recoverable.

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Luke logs into the MoneyManager app and is greeted by screen 1a.  He He selects “register” “Register” and is lead to screen 1b.  He He enters his email (skywalker@imperial.edu) and creates a password, then selects register"Register".  He He is lead led to screen 2a (since he is a first time user), where he selects “Create a Budget”. He is then lead led to screen 3.  Under Under the “food” “Food” category he enters $175, under clothing "Clothing" he enters $75, and he adds a new category that he calls “recreation” and assigns “Recreation”, assigning $50 (all of these per month).  He He then selects “Save”, which takes him to screen 2b.

Luke wants to share his budget with his father, so he selects “View Your Budget”, which leads him to Screen screen 5.  He He selects “Share”, which leads him to screen 8.  He He enters his father’s email, iamyourfather@deathstar.comand hits “Save” (Vader ignores this email for a while).  Luke Luke quits his app.  Periodically Periodically throughout the month he , Luke adds his new expenses by signing onto into the app (which brings him from Screens screens 1a->2b), clicking on “enter “Enter an expense” Expense” (which takes him to screen 4), adding the expense in screen 4, selecting the appropriate category, and selecting “Save”.

When Luke spends too much money at the Cantinalocal cantina, he logs into his MoneyManager app (Screens screens 1a->2b) and selects “View Your Budget”, which leads him to Screen screen 5.  He He then selects “Edit”, which takes him to screen 3.  He He re-allocates his budget, allocating “Recreation” $70, “Clothing” $55, and “Food” $175.  He He then asks his father to give him more money.  Vader Vader decides to finally check out his son’s budget before making his decision, so he creates an account (Screens screens 1a->1b->2a)  He . He then selects “Luke’s Budget”, which leads him to screen 5.  Within the Within screen 5, Vader can expand a particular category to see detailed expenses in that category (he can then also collapse that category to simplify the view). From screen 5 he can navigate , Vader navigates over to view the history of spending Luke's expenses by clicking on “History”, which leads to Screen screen 9 (since his son has only used the app for one month, this graph would only have a single point for each category and would thus not be very interesting). )  Vader Vader decides to give his son an extra $50 this month, and tells him so.  Since Since this is a one-time income and Luke should not count on this extra money in his monthly budget, Luke does not adjust his budget.

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