Design a standalone bill splitting app for iOS or Android that addresses the following: ability to split bill and tip with multiple people and ability to specify tip amount or percentage(ex. 10%, 15%, 20%).
Spent about 6h on this assignment during my last semester midterms at SVA’s Masters program.
Approach 🤔
Problem Analysis 🤯
User goals ⚖️
Competitors 📊
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Ideation 🧐
Use cases 😱
User flow 🚥
Wire-framing concepts ⚒
Test ⚗️
Design 🏗
Prototype 🚀
Takeaways 🥂
Problem Analysis🤯
Find the answers to:
What is the tip amount?
How much am I supposed to pay?
How was that calculated?
Was the tip included?
How can I pay?
User Goals ⚖️
Open the app, get the results and close it as soon as possible
Calculate the tip either by value or percentage
Find out who pays how much
Give details of the split(including tips, tax, etc.), and share if someone asks
Competitors 📊
Splitwise
Tab
Forkit
Plates
Split My Bill
Learnings —
Scanning the bill is not a good idea for the best experience, it just complicates things(at the moment)
Having complex interactions wastes a lot of time of the user in app
There can be a lot of ways to split a bill, so choose a flow wisely!
Components 📐
What are the things that are considered to split a bill? And which are the important ones?
Prompt 👂
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Problem Analysis🤯
User Goals ⚖️
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Input
Output