Challenge Summary
Welcome to the "Odyssey Banking App - Personal Finance Management Design Challenge". This is the 4th challenge from the Odyssey Banking App project. In the previous challenges, we already created several important features (security, customer dashboard, account dashboard, and alert management) for the Banking application. In this challenge, we will create a Personal Finance Management (PFM) feature for both Odyssey Online Banking (via Responsive web app) and Odyssey Mobile Banking (via Hybrid Mobile app).
Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. Let us know if you have any questions in the challenge forum!
Round 1
Submit your initial designs for checkpoint feedback (both Online Banking and Mobile Banking)
01) PFM Dashboard- As part of your checkpoint submission, you must upload your submission to MarvelApp so we can provide direct feedback on your designs. Please include the MarvelApp URL in your notes.txt
- Make sure all pages have the correct flow. Use the proper file numbers, (1, 2, 3, etc.)
Round 2
Submit your final designs with all checkpoint feedback implemented (both Online Banking and Mobile Banking)
01) PFM Dashboard02) PFM Widget
- As part of your Final submission, you must replace your checkpoint submission with the final submission into MarvelApp so we can provide direct feedback on your designs. Please include the MarvelApp URL in your notes.txt
- Make sure all pages have the correct flow. Use the proper file numbers, (1, 2, 3, etc.)
- If you're not submitting in the Checkpoint/Round 1, you are not eligible to submit in the Final/Round 2
CHALLENGE OBJECTIVES
- Create User story and related UI/UX screens and interactions for Personal Finance Management (PFM) dashboard and widget for both Odyssey Online Banking application (Responsive Web App) and Mobile Banking application (Hybrid Mobile App)
BACKGROUND OVERVIEW
- Our goal in this project is to create strong direct relationships with our customers. We want to provide everything - a blended bank, preferential banking for their family, and open to non-banking services via our digital app (Responsive Web App and Mobile Hybrid App)
- This project goal is to create two banking applications for the Odyssey customers:
- Odyssey Online Banking (Responsive Web App), and
- Odyssey Mobile Banking (Hybrid Mobile App in iOS and Android)
- This challenge will focus on creating UI/UX screens for one of the important feature which is Personal Finance Management (PFM) for both the Odyssey Online Banking (Responsive Web App) and the Odyssey Mobile Banking (Hybrid Mobile App)
- The PFM dashboard and widget will consist of 5 major feature elements that need to be simulated, they are:
- Account Aggregation
- Spending Analytics
- Budgeting
- Savings Goal
- Income Expenditure View
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Individual or Business Customer that already open a Bank account and want to use the Online Banking and/or Mobile Banking Features
PERSONA
- Name: David Thwyelis
- Occupation: Coffee Barista
- Goals: Saving money to open his own coffee shop
- Frustrations: Need better financial planning to reach his goal sooner
- Wants: Application that provides simulation and the ability to manage his personal finance
DESIGN CONSIDERATION
- MUST strictly follow our Branding Guidelines
- MUST follow and pass WCAG accessibility standards. You are allowed to change some colors or layout if it can increase the accessibility. You can use the Inclusive design approach for this. Some example of inclusive design: Inclusive Design Principle or Microsoft Inclusive Design
- Follow the naming convention in the approved design. For example, as much as possible, only capitalize the first letter of two words format such as “Personal information”. Two letters can be capitalized if they belong to abbreviations such as “Secure PIN” or “User ID”.
- Modern, Simple, and Clean design
- Reduce the number of interactions required from users as much as possible
- Use color or great visual comparison to highlight a comparison of important information
- Intuitive for the user; should never be left asking "what do I do next?"
- Easy viewing for pages that may be over overcrowded with information
CHALLENGE FORUM
- If you have any doubts or questions regarding challenge requirements, please ask in our challenge forum: https://apps.topcoder.com/forums/?module=ThreadList&forumID=783720
EXPLORATION SCORE
In terms of expectations, we would like to measure the concept against the following in the one to ten scales:
- Creativity: 7
- 1: barely new ideas
- 10: a utopic product with features not proven to be able to be fully implemented
- Aesthetics: 10
- 1: low-fidelity design, wireframe or plain sketch
- 10: top-notch finished looking visual design
- Exploration: 7
- 1: strictly follow an existing reference or production guideline
- 10: open to alternative workflows/features not listed here that would help the overall application
- Branding: 10
- 1: don’t care at all about the branding just functionality
- 10: without a properly branded product there is no success
SCREEN REQUIREMENTS
01) PFM Dashboard
- User/Customer can access the PFM from left side navigation/main menu
- Only Odyssey accounts will appear/shown in the PFM (Finance Manager) Dashboard
- Non-Odyssey and closed accounts would not be considered for PFM
- Feature only applicable for Individual/Personal Customer Type and Not the Business Type
- Provide the following features and interactions in the dashboard:
- Account Aggregation
- Follow the following user stories from the spreadsheet:
- Online Banking: OLB_PFM 02
- Mobile Banking: MB_PFM 02
- Show aggregated view for the user Odyssey Accounts (user might have several Odyssey accounts for different purposes)
- Follow the following user stories from the spreadsheet:
- Spent Analytics
- Follow the following user stories from the spreadsheet::
- Online Banking: OLB_PFM 06, OLB_PFM 07, OLB_PFM 08, OLB_PFM 09, OLB_PFM 10
- Mobile Banking: MB_PFM 06, MB_PFM 07, MB_PFM 08, MB_PFM 09, MB_PFM 10
- Only Personal Current accounts will be included in this feature
- Spent categories to be pre-defined (use some dummy category, for now, such as Housing, Transportation, Food, Utilities, Insurance, Medical & Health, etc)
- The default view of spent categorization:
- The default view is for 30 days
- The default view would include all current account of the user/customer
- Customer can filter details at aggregated/individual account level
- Customer can select the duration of the Spent view (Last 7 days/ 30 days/ 90 days, 180 days, 365 days)
- Customer will be able to drill down into the Spent bucket to see which transactions contributed to the spent total
- Customer will be able to Re-categorize Transactions into different Spent categories
- Customers will be able to add new spent categories or remove the pre-defined ones
- Follow the following user stories from the spreadsheet::
- Budgeting
- Follow the following user stories from the spreadsheet:
- Online Banking: OLB_PFM 11, OLB_PFM 12, OLB_PFM 13, OLB_PFM 14, OLB_PFM 15, OLB_PFM 16, OLB_PFM 17, OLB_PFM 18
- Mobile Banking: MB_PFM 11,MB_PFM 12, MB_PFM 13,MB_PFM 14, MB_PFM 15, MB_PFM 16, MB_PFM 17,MB_PFM 18
- Customer can create a budget for a minimum of 7 days to a maximum of 1 year
- Budget categories would be the same as the Spent Categories
- The date range will be provided to create the budget
- For each category type, only 1 budget can be defined at a time
- For different budget categories, customer can define different time frames (min 7 days to maximum 1 year)
- Budgets can be configurable per account or at an aggregated level or both
- Follow the following user stories from the spreadsheet:
- Saving Goals
- No user stories, need to create from scratch
- Saving Goals can be mapped to savings accounts only
- Customer can create ‘saving pots’ within savings accounts to track multiple saving goals
- If Pots are defined then:
- The Total Balance of that account will be split into the defined Pots
- When a Saving Goal is reached, the customer should be notified
- Income Expenditure View
- Follow the following user stories from the spreadsheet:
- Online Banking: OLB_PFM 03, OLB_PFM 04, OLB_PFM 05
- Mobile Banking: MB_PFM 03, MB_PFM 04, MB_PFM 05
- The Income and Expenditure Account is a summary of all items of incomes and expenses which relate to the ongoing accounting year
- It is prepared with the objective of finding out the surplus or deficit arising out of current incomes over current expenses
- All incomes and expenses relating to the accounting year, whether they are actually received and paid or not, are taken into consideration
- Follow the following user stories from the spreadsheet:
02) PFM Widget
- Follow the following user stories from the spreadsheet:
- Online Banking: OLB_PFM 01
- Mobile Banking: MB_PFM 01
- The PFM widget is a small widget that embedded in different screens/pages/parts of the other features in the Odyssey Banking application
- By default, it will appear in the customer dashboard (the first screen that user/customer seen when successfully logged in to the app)
- We need to update the existing design of the PFM Widget (Finance Manager)
- The PFM widget will provide the capability to the user/customer to select and simulate any of the 5 following interactions (like the PFM dashboard have, but as a mini widget, and only one of them can be simulated at one time - we are open for new suggestion though):
- Account Aggregation
- Spending Analytics
- Budgeting
- Savings Goal
- Income Expenditure View
DOCUMENTATION (Find the links in challenge forum)
- Branding Guidelines Folder:
- Icons.pdf, icon style using our branding, feel free to use or create a new one using the same style
- Odyssey Branding Guidelines, Our Branding guidelines
- Odyssey - Challenge 1 Final Deliverables, Design baseline from 1st challenge
- PFM User Story
BRANDING GUIDELINES
- Follow Odyssey Branding Guidelines Folder
TARGET DEVICES
- Online Banking (Responsive Web App): 1440px Width with Height adjusting accordingly
- Mobile Banking (Hybrid Mobile App): 1125px Width x 2436px Height
MARVEL PROTOTYPE
- We need you to upload your screens to Marvel App
- Please request for marvel app in the challenge forum
- You MUST include your Marvel app URL (in your marvel app prototype, click on share and then copy the link & share it with your notes/comment on this link while you upload)
SUBMISSION AND SOURCE FILES
Submission File
- Submit JPG/PNG image files based on Challenge submission requirements stated above
- MarvelApp link for review and to provide feedback
- The declaration files document contains the following information:
Source Files
- All source files of all graphics created in either Figma (Primary Tool Recommendation), Adobe XD, Sketch, or Photoshop and saved as an editable layer
FINAL FIXES
- As part of the final fixes phase, you may be asked to modify your graphics (sizes or colors) or modify overall colors
Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. It is important that you monitor any updates provided by the client or Studio Admins in the forums. Please post any questions you might have for the client in the forums.