Subscription Manager

Subscription Manager App

Personal Project

Summary

I have quite a busy smartphone setup.  I download, and try, a lot of services and apps. However,  I'm having a bit of a rough time, managing all of the services that I subscribe to, whether it's Hulu, UX-App, or Adobe CC.  

I'd like to manage everything that I subscribe to within one application. What would that look like?

What would be helpful for me, would be an app that could do the following things :

I want to see everything that I'm subscribed to.

This is the crux of my problem - this gives me the visibility I need to keep track of what I am subscribed too, at a glance. 

How much is all of this costing me?

In support of the first point , there's a cost impact to these subscriptions -

I want to be able to see what I'm spending on a periodic basis and perhaps see some sort of visualization.

Lastly, I want the services that I subscribe to be pulled in (magically).

I would like for anything I'm subscribed, to be pulled in without manual intervention.

Role/Tools

Working as a UX-team-of-one, I wanted to use a light-weight wireframing application like Balsamiq, to come up with an idea to explore the concept of a subscription service organizer.  My goal was to shoot from the hip, and work to come up with a concept that can be used as a conversation-starter , to take a step towards a possible solution. 

Here's a rough take on this idea, doing some brainstorming in Balsamiq. 

What's Next?

In support of developing this idea further, here are some of the things that need more attention :

• Do some research to validate my hypothesis - is this something that could benefit other users besides myself? Are there some blind-spots that I don't see, that other users can point out?
• Develop the information architecture behind how the subscriptions categorizations work , and validate with a card-sort 
• Use a different prototyping tool in a higher fidelity, include interactions, and user-test the resulting prototype