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Sally Smith is a small business owner who has been running her bakery in the "real world" for around 15 years. She lends out money to friends and relatives, but since she is so busy managing her bakery, she often forgets who she lends money to when it’s not related to business. She would use this app to help her keep track of who she lends money to, and to keep a record of who pays her back. She She also wants the application to be able to let her track users that are not registered as PennyPincher users, since she often lends out money to her grandparents who do not use the internet. Overall, Sally hopes that this app would allow her to worry less about the money she lends to her friends and family.
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- Super simple user-interface - Should not take more than a few seconds to input a debt or payment of debtApprovals - When another person places a debt on him, he wants to be able to approve it so that people do not make up claims for money.
- An actual "system" instead of just an interface for a database.
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- User establishes a connection with another user and can now add transactionsHow often used?
- Depending on the user, but should be used fairly infrequently as users usually only incur debt with friends
2. Adding
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a transaction
Goal: Allow users to input an amount that a particular person owes them
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- A "payment schedule" where groups of users can set when debts have to be paid off.
- Payment disputes - users can dispute a particular debt that has been placed on them.
- Group formation - users can place themselves in different groups simultaneously
- Connections with people who do not use the application - users can use the app to "offline" track debt with a friend/family member that isn't technologically savvy (yes, people like that exist!)
These ideas that we have mentioned definitely add another dimension to the Penny Pincher application, providing users with features that are far beyond just the pure actions of saving and retrieving data. Our ultimate goal is to provide users with an interactive, immersive system to debt tracking and repayment - one that is simple, easy-to-use, and effective.
TA Feedback.
While I think you're going in a good direction, note that this project is barely a stretch - try to push yourselves to do something interesting with the UI to make a case for it being an interesting UI challenge. Make sure it isn't just a layer over a database.
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