Rasika Madav, our final profiled Interaction Design student, created in two steps a home budget application for mobile phones.

Madav, whose interests include design research, web and interface design, usability evaluation and set design, says, "In this project, I observed how people from different cultural and economic backgrounds do home accounting. I designed an application, 'Money planner', which will make money management easy and motivating for today's generation. It can guide the user in planning his budget as per his spending pattern and future expenses, even when he is not taking any extra effort to do accounting."

In the second phase of the project, in order to reach her targeted group (the middle class), Madav removed the touch-screen component, and instead made a simplistic User Interface for key-based mobile phones.