Sliced
A bill management platform helps roommates balance responsibilities, keep organized and minimize conflicts.
Service Design Workshop, 2016 • Course project
Team Member: Haebeen Choi, Jie Yang, Crystal Cai
Duration: 12 weeks
My Output: interaction design, visual interface, wireframe, user problem analysis, service blueprint
I have been living with roommates since my first year of college. Some of them are really fun, we had a great time with each other. But there is a dark side of having a roommate when it comes to split the household bills.
Problem Defination
What is Sliced?
Sliced is a household expense management platform that helps collect, split and ask roommates to pay all the bills & household expense in one place.
Balance
Responsibilities
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Stay
Organized
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Minimize
Conflicts
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How does it work?
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By using our service, we want to help roommates balance responsibilities in their group, keep all household expense stay organized and minimize potential conflicts caused by financial issues.
Design Iteration 1
User Testing 1
Design Iteration 2
Design Iteration 3
Visual Style Board
Final Design
Balance Responsibilities
For each utility service, traditionally the primary account holders have to take all the responsibilities and calculate based on different portions for each roommate, so the burden has to be on one person's shoulder.
After finishing the setup process, Sliced can easily split the expenses for multiple utility bills within a group.
One place for all the bills
After connected with users’ household service accounts, Sliced will capture and pay the household bills automatically based on different due dates.
So users don’t need to worry about missing the deadline and pay each utility bills on different websites.
Minimize Conflicts
Feel embarrassed bargaining with roommates about the unsatisfactory decision?
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Sliced lists the reasonable factors as a reference to facilitate users negotiating and making the split proposal, which could help to defuse the awkward situation and minimize the potential financial conflicts.
Pay with ease
It is simple to add multiple payment methods on Sliced, which helps users save the time from transferring money through various external approaches such as cash, personal check or third-party payment platforms.
For users who choose to activate the Autopay option, Sliced will automatically pay all the bills and send monthly expense notification to users. Users can also choose to manually confirm and pay the bills by themselves.
Stay Organized
Sliced helps roommates keep track everything about utilities and household expense. It records the personal bill history, individual payment status, and billing details.