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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 7)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 14th

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand experience consultancy. Over these past few weeks, we’ve taken a quick look at: (1) the core value proposition behind money management (2) a market landscape analysis of online personal finance services, and (3) opportunities to improve the user experience and engage

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 7th

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. 3Strand’s Concept Features for Wesabe: Support Groups and Scorecard Trying to get your finances under control can be an extremely stressful and overwhelming process. Throw in the worst economic downturn Generation Y has ever faced, and you’ve got

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 5)

Posted on Saturday, Feb 28th

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. This week we’re continuing with our redesign of Wesabe.com, a money management/social networking site. Shown below is our redesign concept for Wesabe’s member homepage. Catering to Generation Y’s needs, our design approach is to make the homepage

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Feb 21st

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. These past few weeks, we have pretty much been living and breathing money management in our quest to find ways to improve the design of the user experience. Now it’s time to choose the lucky website to be

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Feb 14th

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. This week we’re reviewing three more money management websites: Finicity/Mvelopes, Quicken and PNC Virtual Wallet. Finicity/Mvelopes Overview: This company is okay at everything but not special in any way. It charges you $13.20 per month (which is

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 2)

Posted on Saturday, Feb 7th

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Last week, we proposed that money management websites (e.g. Quicken) could use a serious design overhaul. To start that design process, we’ll take a sweep of the market landscape. This week we’re reviewing three popular websites: Mint,

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 1)

Posted on Saturday, Jan 31st

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Redesign That: Personal Finance 3.0 Seeing as how many of us are trying to put a lockdown on our spending this year, we decided to take a broad look across personal money management websites, evaluate their pros

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