Splits App
This is an app design that I created. The goal of this app is to make it easier for friends and family to split checks amongst each other.
Here are the final app pages. See the case study below.
Case Study: I am trying to address splitting bills with large groups of people.
After talking to two people in my target audience, Deeyana and Lucas, I found that splitting a bill between a group on a big transaction app like Venmo* was annoying for Deeyana because she had to make 5 separate transactions for the 5 people she went to dinner with. This was time-consuming and tedious. For Lucas, I found that receiving charges from other people was convenient and easy to use. However, he didn’t like that his incomplete payments weren’t more emphasized in the app. Sometimes he would forget about his incomplete payments and fail to pay people back for days or longer. I noticed that both Deeyana and Lucas liked having friends in the app but did not like that they could see their friend's transactions that they weren't part of. From this analysis, I made an empathy map of a user I would expect to get.
I based my design on my findings. For this app when the user splits the bill they can add as many people as they want to their transaction. The user can then split the bill between as many people as they need to at once. Also, when someone is creating a bill between multiple people their portion of the bill is included to reduce the amount of outside calculations necessary. So, when the user puts in the people they are splitting their bill with they include themselves and the amount their portion was worth. The app won’t make the user pay themself but it is there so the user knows how much they contributed. This means that the user won't have to subtract their own cost from the lump sum before creating the bill to split. I chose to include incomplete payments as a category on the home screen of the app so it is prominent and people won’t forget about incomplete payments they have. I also included a friends feature, however, the user cannot see any payments or transactions that do not involve them.
After talking to two people in my target audience, Deeyana and Lucas, I found that splitting a bill between a group on a big transaction app like Venmo* was annoying for Deeyana because she had to make 5 separate transactions for the 5 people she went to dinner with. This was time-consuming and tedious. For Lucas, I found that receiving charges from other people was convenient and easy to use. However, he didn’t like that his incomplete payments weren’t more emphasized in the app. Sometimes he would forget about his incomplete payments and fail to pay people back for days or longer. I noticed that both Deeyana and Lucas liked having friends in the app but did not like that they could see their friend's transactions that they weren't part of. From this analysis, I made an empathy map of a user I would expect to get.
I based my design on my findings. For this app when the user splits the bill they can add as many people as they want to their transaction. The user can then split the bill between as many people as they need to at once. Also, when someone is creating a bill between multiple people their portion of the bill is included to reduce the amount of outside calculations necessary. So, when the user puts in the people they are splitting their bill with they include themselves and the amount their portion was worth. The app won’t make the user pay themself but it is there so the user knows how much they contributed. This means that the user won't have to subtract their own cost from the lump sum before creating the bill to split. I chose to include incomplete payments as a category on the home screen of the app so it is prominent and people won’t forget about incomplete payments they have. I also included a friends feature, however, the user cannot see any payments or transactions that do not involve them.
*When this app and case study was created in 2022 Venmo did not have the feature to split one transaction amongst multiple people.