A digital application that makes managing money easier and more approachable to college students who have limited financial education or experience.
Spera
Role
Timeline
Process
Tools
UI / UX, User Research, User Interviews, User Testing *Collaborative Project with Leo Song and Iris Xu.
Discovery & Research: 1 month
Design & Testing: 1.5 months
Overall: 2.5 months
Problem Identification
Research
Ideation
Design
Miro, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Problem
Many college students don’t receive proper financial education it leaves them unprepared to manage their finances independently.
As they gain financial responsibility, they often feel overwhelmed by budgeting, saving, and decision-making, which can lead to poor financial choices.
Solution
Spera creates an engaging, personalized financially educating environment that simplifies budgeting, saving, and decision-making while catering to varying starting points among college students. It encourages them to practice, learn, and receive support in their journey.
Prototype
Process
Problem Identification
We identified the problem space in which we then brainstormed improvement areas by asking ourselves how might we solve the problems that are encountered.
Research
Creating a provisional persona and conducting interviews helped clarify what our target audience needs and the challenges they may face. This research proved and disproved our original ideas.
Ideation
Comparing potential competitors and assessing their individual features was crucial to our process to find what has been successfully designed.
User Flow
Categorizing specific ideas into what would be beneficial to our application allowed us to condense all our ideas to necessary key features which then led to a unique and research based application.
Mid Fidelity Wireframes
Design
Low Fidelity - Thumbnails
We chose our color palette and typeface, and began creating core components such as buttons, navigation elements, input fields, and layout structures. This helped establish a consistent visual system and design language that supports usability, clarity, and cohesion across the interface.