Christina Schneider

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Debt Project Case Study

Design a better way for users to learn about finances that are struggling with debt.

Problem

We conducted a survey and interviewed 3 people that are struggling with debt. It is found that the major pain points of having debt is, not having budgeting skills and not being educated in money & management skills.

Solution

Teaching people how to budget and develop money management skills.

Reflections and Project Participation

I collaborated on this project with Erin Williams who also attends Bethel School of Technology.

Learned

While working on this project, I learned that it is easier to think of interview questions after conducting a survey. I feel like we got the most information about the users from the card sorting. During the card sorting, I noticed how some people sorted the cards by priority within the categories and some just sorted just by category.

Favorite Part

My favorite part was creating the wireframes because I could start taking the pictures in my mind and put them to the computer. That is what I am great at, using software to create

Least Favorite Part

My least favorite part was doing the survey and interviews.

If There Was More Time?

If I had more time, I would have spend more time on the wireframes to add more detail.

Research Process

Focused on users age 18-80 who have debt and are trying to become debt free

Key Insights

We conducted surveys and interviews

Users want to learn more about getting out of debt
Budgeting tools
Money management skills
Be disciplined in spending / impulse buy too much
Majority of users want to be able to save, invest, start a business, and have dreams they want to accomplish
Users want to be able to give more and help others
There are a lot of fear based training

Card Sorting

Key Insights

Christina’s users were joking that it was an IQ test, it was like a game
Jeff’s thought process:
- Divided in what is something I do
- What is something in the future
- What is already happening
- What am I going to be learning
Erin’s Mom Friend thought process:
- Had a mapping mentality
- Organizing it – what are skills
- What is something I am going to be creating
- What is something that I am going to be planning for the future
There were a lot of topics the users agreed on. Some users were quicker, some took longer and put more thought into it
Everyone said they enjoyed doing it and it was easy to find people who wanted to participate
3 out of 4 people that Christina did the card sorting – organized the topics by priority within their categories
Brad wanted to add the topic “Tithe” under budgeting category