BACKGROUND：
DEMAND：
The rising cost of living, driven by factors like housing, energy, climate impacts, and pandemic-related supply chain issues, has led to record inflation in Australia, deeply affecting the quality of life, especially for those with limited financial resources, including students, pensioners, and refugees. Your design aims to alleviate the cost of living pressures for a targeted group, either directly or by engaging stakeholders to create meaningful change.
How might we reduce the cost of living pressures for people in Australia? Your final design concept needs to have a clear rationale, or theory of change, for how the designed experience, service, policy, collaboration, strategy or another digital and/or physical artifact will contribute to change.
Group work (Zehui Li，Ziyong Chen，Yanlin Zhu)
SOLUTION：
Portability： The watch style is convenient for users to carry. You can quickly obtain product information by scanning the code.
High-cost performance： Users can quickly check the price of the same product sold in different places, as well as reviews of the same type of product.
Financial Transparency：Clear financial situation design, so that users can timely understand their funds.
DESIGN PROCESS OVERVIEW
Want to have their psychological needs met
Want to be aware of their finances
Want to get good value for money
Want help with their finances
Through previous research, we focused on impulse spending among the younger generation in their early 20s.
Through Persona, we divide into two user groups according to their needs, which helps us to clearly understand the needs, pain points and behaviour patterns of the target users.
According to the requirements, we made a preliminary sketch design and carried out three iterations, and made a Paper prototype.
Through Role-play/User testing, we get suggestions from the tester users for the prototype.
We made a high-fidelity prototype and organized the detailed process and data into a poster.
Skills you develop or strengthen through the program:
For product 3D model production application.
At the same time, I learned teamwork and cooperation in this process. A different division of labour and communication enabled our project to achieve the expected results faster.
Critical reflection on challenges, issues and shortcomings:
Since the problem we need to solve is a more extensive social problem, when we are in the research stage, we need to investigate a large amount of information and content and clearly define our goals and products. At the beginning of the prototype, our product was too broad in its functionality to meet users' needs, resulting in it being more like a collection than more targeted. Some adjustments were made in the later stages.