IOU Notes
A personal-finance app for friends and acquaintances: tracking debts, loans and payments.
Designer · 2023 · App
Context
Placeholder about the problem of tracking money lent among acquaintances — informal, easy to forget, socially awkward — and how IOU Notes set out to solve it.
Challenge
How to handle a sensitive topic (chasing friends for money) with an interface that lowers social friction. Placeholder.
Process & decisions
- Decision 1 (placeholder). How you modeled debts/loans/payments.
- Decision 2 (placeholder). Tone and copy to remind without shaming.
- Decision 3 (placeholder). Decision on splitting bills / settling among several people.
Outcome
Placeholder outcome or stage, and the takeaway from designing for money plus personal relationships.