Shawn Qian - Heavy Lender/User Persona
Shawn is a regular MIT student who is pretty nitpicky about his money and likes bills to be split equally. He really doesn’t mind paying for others, but gets annoyed when multiple people borrow money and then forget to pay it back. He finds that he can manually keep track of how much people owe him and how much he owes others, but finds that it’s simply too cumbersome and slow to be effective when there’s more than four people. Since Shawn is one of the few people at MIT who isn’t super tech-savvy, he wants an would use this app extensively as he likes to keep a detailed record about his money, he would like a simple user-interface that is super simple and efficient to useallows him to input records super efficiently.
Lessons learned from Heavy User Personal
Current Solution for Debt Tracking
- Pencil/Paper - really low-level way of keep tracking, works for only a few people
- iPhone - uses a money managing app meant for one person and attempts to use it for multiple people
Requirements of Desired Solution
- Super simple user-interface - Should not take more than a few seconds to input a debt or payment of debt
- Approvals - When another person places a debt on Shawn, he wants to be able to approve it so that people do not make up claims for money.