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Users are prone to make errors when they type, and there is a lot of text entry in this design. Suggestions for items names help prevent these errors, but they will still happen. The status message includes a link that will allow you to undo the last action (such as add food) so that users can undo a change if they notice quickly. Otherwise, if a user added the wrong food, (and it was more than one click on the sight ago) they just have to delete all the foods they added and re-add the correct items. The time to do this would be improved by searching for the item, but it’s still not fast. The same holds for adding purchases to the budget page.
The page the user is on is visible (via highlighting) on the left on the menu bar. Unfortunately, this may not always be visible, however, i the user has a lot of items listed and scrolls down to look at the bottom of the list. The links on the menu also have a good information scent by listing the actions that can be taken after clicking on that link. Then menu bar will be colored differently than the rest of the page, but an additional afforance, such as a clickable texture, would also be useful.
Design 2:
Upon loading the website, Erin sees the Dough home page. It is easy for her to find the login button at the top, and she enters her username and password in the modal dialog box that appears when she clicks it.
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