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Subscription Manager Deeper Dive

Idea for a subscription manager app

Subscription Manager App

Personal Project

So... here's my phone home screen. <sigh>

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