Steady
Couples share a life but rarely share a clear picture of their money. Steady gives them one screen to see it all, without the judgment.
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Challenge
Most finance apps are built for one person. When couples try to understand their money together, they're stuck piecing together multiple bank accounts, credit cards, and apps with no shared view.
The result is avoidance, big financial questions go unanswered because the number simply doesn't exist in one place.
Approach
I ran a diary study and couple interviews with six pairs to understand when and why the visibility gap shows up. Three insights shaped the design: couples need one unified picture, privacy should be a mutual agreement rather than a setting, and numbers need context to avoid triggering blame.
I built and tested a full prototype, then iterated the dashboard after finding that conventional red/green patterns caused defensive reactions between partners.
Steady replaces the scattered, individual experience of managing money with a single household view designed for two people. The final design consolidates nine financial sources into one dashboard, introduces a conversation-based privacy mechanism that all tested couples accepted, and uses contextual language instead of color-coded judgment to keep financial conversations productive.
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