Joint Budgeting for Couples

Joint Budgeting for Couples

Joint Budgeting for Couples

Personal Project: Revolut App Feature Design

Personal Project:
Revolut App Feature Design

About

My Role

UI/ UX Design & Design Research

Timeline

3 weeks


Managing joint expenses as a couple is time consuming and requires a lot of communication, especially when on a budget. Currently, many rely on external budgeting tools or manual tracking.

This project is a further step in the direction to make Revolut the centre of a user's whole financial management process.

I designed a product solution that extends the existing Groups feature to support joint budgeting, multi-category expense tracking, and in-app financial communication. By enabling couples to record expenses, assign them to shared budget folders, and discuss transactions directly through Revolut Chat, the feature improves transparency and encourages more financial management to happen within Revolut.

Young couples want to manage joint expenses without joining finances just yet

Young couples want to manage joint expenses without joining finances just yet

Money: A Leading Relationship Stressor

1 in 4 couples identify money as their greatest relationship challenge.

Joint financial budgeting needs a lot of communication

User research showed: Current financial management tools need a lot of time and communication to be effective

Through user research, I identified these unmet needs and factors that enable couples to budget and split costs effectively.

A Gap in Today’s Revolut Product Offering

Solution

Where possible, I used existing components from the Revolut design system.

Transparent communication

Transparent communication

Flow 1

Flow 1

Finances and specific expenses can be discussed in the group chat within the Revolut app’s Group feature. This keeps all communication in one place.

Finances and specific expenses can be discussed in the group chat within the Revolut app’s Group feature. This keeps all communication in one place.

Shared categorized budgets

Flow 2

Budgets can be organized into folders by expense category, and each budget can be fully customized. Users can also see immediately how much of the monthly budget has been spent in each category.

Fair expense splitting

Flow 3

Expense splitting is fully customizable: users can split either individual budget folders or all expenses across the group, and they can also set custom split ratios. Expenses are added in the same way as in other Revolut Groups.

Final Prototype

Have a look at the final prototype here

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Success Metrics

I would measure the following information for feedback other than user interviews:

01.

Adoption rate

Does it make users spend more time in the app?

02.

Frequency of use:

Is it used once or repeatedly?

03.

How many users does the product attract

Does the new feature incentivise users to join Revolut

Case Study Summary

Have a look at more of my process here

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Contact

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