Subscription Manager App
Personal Project
So... here's my phone home screen. <sigh>
Problem to solve
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.
Giving it a bit of thought, I came up some wireframes in Balsamiq to help with this task.
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*
*Give me the option too, just in case!
Here's a rough take on this idea, doing some brain-storming 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