Expense Planner App

Year: 2020 to 2021

Location: The American University of Kurdistan, Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq

Supervisors: Dr. Dara Sherwani & Dr. Hasan Mohammed

Course: Technology Entrepreneurship Course & Capstone Project II

The Expense Planner app is a mobile application designed for individuals facing financial issues and those who want to manage their expenses. The app includes the following features:

  • Daily and weekly
  • expense management
  • Goal-oriented savings
  • Expense tracking
  • Visual representations of expenses.

The app was designed and coded by me from scratch. I conducted this research and designed the app as part of the Technology Entrepreneurship course during my bachelor’s degree program, and I completed the coding using Flutter and Dart language as my graduation project in the Capstone Project II course.

Conducted Activities

1-1 Interviews

Use Case Development

Survey

Wireframing and Prototype

Mind Mapping

Duncker Diagram

Sketching

Usability Testing

People's Problems

The following are the problems collected from the participants during the user research stage:

  • Going out more often and spending money

  • Not saving money

  • Not managing the income

  • Not able to find a Job

  • Media overload

  • Social validation

Analyzing the Problem

4WH method was used to analyze the problem

Problem Definition

Duncker diagram was used in order to helps me obtain solutions that satisfy the present state/ desired state statements.

Possible Opportunities

The following are the solutions defined after the data was analyzed:

  • Visualize the money that is being spent

  • Find Out what the money is being spent on.

  • Managing daily and weekly expenses.

  • Save money for a particular goal

Mind Map

The mind map method was used to organize and structure information. 

Use Case Development

Use case diagram was used to define the functions of the app

Screenshots of the Developed App

The following are some screenshots of the app after it had been developed using Flutter and dart for the front end and Firebase as the backend. The app works on both iOS and Android as well as it has been published.