Scenario
Sally Smith is a recent college graduate working in New York City at BigName design firm. Since she is only a starting analyst, she lives on a tight budget, especially with the high New York city tax and cost of living. Sally current lives in a Manhattan apartment with three roommates. Not only is Sally living with these three people, but she happens to be best friends with them as well. This makes life really great for Sally because she has a nice group to go out with on the weekends. However, as time has passed, Sally and her roommates have noticed that they have a lot of debts to resolve all the time.
From housing bills and utility bills to bar taps, taxi fares, and movie tickets, Sally and her roommates constantly struggle to figure out how much each person owes another in total. Between her and her roommates, they find themselves either not remembering an amount of debt, disputing an amount of debt, or disputing a debt completely. With her busy schedule, Sally would really love to be able to have a system that allows her and her roommates to keep track of their mutual debt, dispute any debts that are questionable, and review all of their transactions at the end of the month when they pay their bills. Notably, Sally would like to be able to easily add new transactions (when she foots the dinner bill for a group of friends), easily view all transactions posted, and also flag a bad post if she wants to dispute an faulty transaction.
Designs
For these designs, we decided that we would all create our own personal designs without consulting each other. That way, we can use our creativity to the fullest without any outside influences. Below are the three unique designs.
Alex Wang's Design
This design borrows emphasizes consistency throughout the application and simplicity. Figure 1 displays the home screen of the application for Sally Smith. In this screen, she can see a list of all of the people she has a PennyPincher connection with. Each row itself is a link to a screen displaying all debts for that particular person (Figure 2). On each row, three main user interface devices are shown. On the very left, there is a checkbox used for selecting the user when Sally wants to delete a connection with that particular user. To the right, there is, on some rows, a button with a label representing the number of disputes that particular user has.