Wedge Overview
Managing shared payments, like groceries or restaurant bills, can be awkward, confusing, and prone to error. One person usually pays the full amount, leaving the challenge of dividing costs quickly and accurately.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Individuals who make purchases for others need a tool to track spending.
SOLUTION
Use AI vision to streamline receipt scanning and easily share spending.
ROLES
Lead UI/UX Designer
Brand Designer
App Store Marketer
TIMELINE
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025: MVP
Apr 2025 - Aug 2025: UX Iteration
Aug 29, 2025: iOS Release
Process
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To incorporate brand into a curated collection of reusable components, patterns, and guidelines that ensure a product’s interface stays consistent, scalable, and efficient.
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Mapping steps and decisions that show how a user moves through a product’s screens or features to complete specific tasks,
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Static representations of a design that showcase detailed visual elements—such as colors, typography, and spacing—before development.
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Observing real users interact with the product in context to uncover qualitative data, such as pain points, natural behaviors, and unmet needs.
Afterwards, triaging findings with quantitative data through benchmarking KPIs from surveys, Likert scales, and analysis.
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Cycling through feedback and data points to direct design direction in meeting business and user goals.
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Serving as a hand-off to engineers to demonstrate and annotate how a design is put together.
Design System
User Flow
User Research
METHOD
1-1 Observational Usability Test, Post-survey
RESEARCH GOALS
RO1: Obtain early feedback on core user flow
RO2: Assess monetization and marketing strategies
PARTICIPANTS
5 new users with financial means, aged 18–30.
Coded Themes and I-Statements
Finding 1. Users wanted to itemize their receipt before entering metadata
BEFORE
BLOCKS user from skipping metadata to scan right away
Requires at least 2 members to move onto scanning
AFTER
Users can choose to scan, upload, or manually enter right away
Aligns with natural human use
Finding 2: Users were confused about assigning items to spenders
Bolt AI - Design Spotlight
Engineering System Map
Next Steps
Observe product usage and telemetrics
Continue to scale the product with new features and fixes

