Deep Pockets

What is Deep Pockets?

Deep pockets is a SOON to be release personal budget tracking app.

What platforms will it be available on?

Android and iOS or iOS and Android :). Order is yet to be decided.

What is unique about Deep Pockets?

There are indeed many budget tracking apps, maybe you have tried a few. How did it feel using them?

Well, Deep Pockets aims to be the most EASY to use of them all. Yes, not more not less.

Where can I find out more about the app?

http://www.getdeeppockets.com

What about the design process?

Keep scrolling and you will get a glimpse “behind the scene” from the actual design process and some of the intermediary versions.

How was it made?

Initial Sketches

The ideation started with just a few scribbles, pen and paper, nothing fancy. At this stage anything more than low fidelity sketches increases the risk of investing time in artifacts that are later thrown away anyway.

The Actual Design

Design principles

Focusing the design is crucial for saving time later during the process. In order to do this we can use different tools like Personas or Design Principles.

Here are the principles this app was design on.

Speed

“Time is money”, so the users’s time is an expensive commodity. Everything should be optimized for speed, especially when the user inputs data.

Trust

The app should feel solid also from the design standpoint. User will received immediate feedback following any action, visual and where possible haptic.

Simplicity

Nobody reads the manual and best apps don’t have a manual. App features should be self explanatory and extremely easy to understand.

Ease of use

Compared to the competition, this app aims to be the best in class when it comes to user friendliness.

Evolution of the main screen

Design is a process and does not happen over night. The initial idea evolves over time and gets refined based on USER feedback and research.

Here is a small sample showing the evolution of the main screen of this application as it went through different versions.

Evolution of the “add expense” screen

The entire app went through a process of optimization and simplification. User session after user session added enough data in order to de-risk the design and lower the actual development time.

Here is how the “add expense” screen design was simplified following user feedback.