MoneyManager - GR2

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Team members: Stephanie Chang, Qian Long, Isabella Lubin

Scenario

Luke was born on May the 4th, and is a 19-year-old just entering the Imperial Academy. He is very excited to get away from his family’s farm and begin an exciting new chapter of his life, majoring in Aeronautics and Astronautics and exploring the wonderfully colorful neighborhood of Mos Eisley. However, Luke’s father, Vader, is worried about his son going out on his own. In particular, although Vader trusts Luke not to squander the family fortune, Vader would like to guard against Luke accidentally spending more than he needs to buy groceries, room decorations, or drinks at the local cantina. Vader and Luke agree that Vader will pay for Luke’s housing and tuition, while Luke will have an initial monthly budget of 300 credits for textbooks, meals, and other personal expenses.

Yoda, Luke and Vader’s wise neighbor, tells Vader and Luke about the MoneyManager app, which Luke can use to create a budget and keep track of his expenses. Luke downloads the MoneyManager app on his Galaxy smartphone and creates an account with his skywalker@imperial.edu email address. Luke creates a budget for his first month at the Academy with the categories of “Food”, “Clothing”, and “Recreation” and sets the initial balance in his MoneyManager app as 300 credits, with a recurring allowance of 300 credits at the start of each month. For the given month, he assigns 175 credits to “Food”, 75 credits to “Clothing”, and 50 credits to “Recreation”. Luke then gives his father access to view his budget (by sharing it with iamyourfather@deathstar.com) so his father knows that he is spending his money responsibly and so his father can see if Luke needs more funds. Because Vader has not yet created an account with MoneyManager, he receives an email prompting him to create an account. He does so, and is then able to view his son’s budget.

As the month progresses, Luke inputs his various expenses. He spends 40 credits a week at the grocery store and inputs the expenditure into the app while standing in the checkout line, and spends 50 credits on a new uniform at a local clothing store (again inputting the expenditure while in the checkout line). In the third week of the month, Luke spends one memorable night gambling with bounty hunters at the local cantina and loses 50 credits (with another 20 credits spent on drinks). In the morning, he enters the 70 credits as an expense under “Recreation”. Seeing that MoneyManager reports his “Recreation” balance as negative, Luke then has to rebudget, leaving himself with 55 credits for “Food”, 5 credits for “Clothing”, and 0 credits for “Recreation”. Concerned about his ability to get through the rest of the month, Luke asks his father to view his budget and consider giving him more money.

Vader logs into MoneyManager and views Luke’s budget. Seeing that his son has spent 70 credits in one night on recreation (but remembering his own college years), he agrees to give Luke another 50 credits for the month. Luke modifies his budget to include this new allowance and wisely does not return to the cantina that month.

Designs

Design 1

Screenshots: (1) Welcome screen; (2) Registration; (3) Log in; (4) Home page; (5) Create/modify budget; (6) Enter income/expenses; (7) View budget as summary list; (8) View budget summary details; (9) View budget as graph; (10) View budget history; (11) View budgets shared with you; (12) Share budget

Analysis

Design 2

Screenshots: (1a) Welcome and login; (1b) Welcome and registration; (2) View budgets / home; (3) Create/modify budget income; (4) Enter new income/expenses; (5) Edit old income/expenses; (5a) Edit individual expense popup; (6) View budget for current month; (7) View budget history; (8) Share budget

Analysis