Scenario
Jaden, 25 years old, works for Pickbox, a small start up where he regularly spends money both for personal purposes and for the company. As a result of his numerous expenditures. he sometimes gets annoyed with trying to track of all of them using receipts, as well as the lack of distinction between his personal and company spending.
As he explores options for better ways to manage money, he realizes that he also wants to be able to see trends in his expenditures so that he can save money or make appropriate adjustments to his spending habits so that he can improve these trends for his personal spending. Later on at work, his boss Mike tells him that the company needs better ways to track employee spending for the organization, because various employees make small purchases for different parts or offices of the company. Jaden looks online and finds Traxx, an android app for money management.
With Traxx, as Jaden makes purchases, he differentiates between personal and Pickbox’s expenses, and is able to see trends on how he spends the money on different time basis. He can also view these expenses in different forms. His boss Mike can also see the expenses of the company and how much employees like Jaden are spending in purchases for Pickbox.
Storyboards
Akira
Jaden makes a purchase at 7Eleven for Pickbox. He opens the app and sees the home screen
[Picture of Home screen]
He clicks New Entree to enter his spending.
[Picture of New Entree]
He sees that the date is correct (as today’s date), and clicks the microphone button, and says “Eight Seventy Four at 7Eleven, Convenience Store.”
The input box to the price and tags fill up. Jaden, then, makes sure that the funds say Cash and moves on. He remembers that he should report it to Pickbox so that he can be reimbursed when he sees the button to make it into a “UOME”, and hits the button.
Nahom
Haoyi
This design is a data visualization application. Essentially, for ever purchase, you type in the amount spet, and the phone will automatically record the current time and location. A map will be shown, together with the current time, to let the user know where the app thinks he is and what time it is. By clicking on the map, the the user can override the apps location-guess if it is incorrect, inaccurate or outdated.
Jaden navigates to this page whenever he makes a purchase
He confirms that the map puts him where he thinks he is, types in the amont he spent, and presses “enter”. The app records his purchase details (amount/location/time) and exits.
Later on Jaden wants to go back over his previous spending. He does not have anything particular he is looking for, but simply wants to see what he can find out. He navigates immediately to the page showing his recent expenditures:
And he sees that three days ago, his expenditure spiked, likely because of the start of the weekend. Wondering if this is a recurring trend, Jaden goes on to view the aggregate weekly trends of his expenditure:
And he sees that, in fact, he spends more than ¾ of his money on the friday-saturday-sunday that comprises the weekend. Now that’s a surprise! Perhaps Jaden will later want to consciously cut down on his weekend expenditure. However, he also wants more detail: exactly when is he spending his money? Is it on the Saturday night dinner parties? The Sunday afternoon shopping? He simply uses two-finger zoom on the graph and it adjusts to his new viewport:
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Clearly it’s Jaden’sdinner outings which are making up most of his spending, given the huge peaks on Satuday night and Sunday nights! Also suddenly apparent is the spending peak that happens every saturday night past midnight, obviously all the nightclubs that he has been going to have been a drain on his pocket!
With that information in mind, Jaden wants to know which clubs he is spending all his money in on saturday nights (he goes to several). He right pinches to zoom in on the time period he wants (12mn -> 6am Sunday morning) and selects the [Map] from the android menu. This brings up a map of his spending hotspots for that time period, with expenditure automatically consolidated based on physics proximity:
Clearly his major expenditure is at the Miracle of Science Bar, up near the MIT Museum. How much has he been spending, though, the last few times he went there? He taps on the large circle representing the spending concentrated at the Miracle of Science, which brings him to the location spending-history page: