Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Design Review KMyMoney 0.8 - part 1
This is my first dry run through KMyMoney0.8 after browsing through the online help documentation. I appended questions, observations and suggestions like a Speak-aloud exercise as I walked through the s/w for the first time, so some of them may seem superficial. 
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Quicken - Intuit
-Video overview of product is not very helpful, it covers all the points but doesn't allow users to help remember the flow, MS money's video demo is far better
- lot of options of different versions of the product, pretty confusing
- 2 companies in picture, Quicken and Intuit which made the online version
- free trail for 1 month, but 3$ per month there on? why is it priced so high while I get some services fully free?
- elaborate sign up form to just try with payment information :( all this to have a peek at the features and get a feel of the product -> not inviting
-the feature spec on the web is minimal, hardly informative
- lot of options of different versions of the product, pretty confusing
- 2 companies in picture, Quicken and Intuit which made the online version
- free trail for 1 month, but 3$ per month there on? why is it priced so high while I get some services fully free?
- elaborate sign up form to just try with payment information :( all this to have a peek at the features and get a feel of the product -> not inviting
-the feature spec on the web is minimal, hardly informative
Buxfer
+nice live demo of the product, with random data sample to interact
+online
+clean and simple ui flow
+but for 2 or 3 words most of the wording in the ui is simple to understand
- time out for demo: in case u open the browser and wander around doing something else the demo expires
- not too many trends
- bit of confusion on how the split transactions with friends work
+ follows the trend of automatic upload of previous transactions
+ user created rules applied with tags is nicely done
+ found it very easy to learn, could explore almost all functions available: setting up account, rules, reminders, slipt transactions with friends... dont know if this is allows friends to be notified
+online
+clean and simple ui flow
+but for 2 or 3 words most of the wording in the ui is simple to understand
- time out for demo: in case u open the browser and wander around doing something else the demo expires
- not too many trends
- bit of confusion on how the split transactions with friends work
+ follows the trend of automatic upload of previous transactions
+ user created rules applied with tags is nicely done
+ found it very easy to learn, could explore almost all functions available: setting up account, rules, reminders, slipt transactions with friends... dont know if this is allows friends to be notified
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
List of products
Here I will append as comments all the various personal finance softwares I come across.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Mint
About Mint and features
+ui looks clean
+online
+mobile updates
+has an aspect of helping complete newbies
- navigation issues...links to overview, features, spending trends etc. come below the fold after your are signed in, before sign in the features come right in the top. Once you are signed-in wont allow a peak at how it work without taking ur account info, lot of people would like to look before give important info. I personally reached the features page after a lot of looking around, realized its on the home page to start with but goest to below the fold after sign in.
+ helps u trust, veriSign etc.
- the writing is not very web-user friendly: long sentences
- in the Features page the layout of info is confusing, and it gives a broken view of the ui rather than a neat flow like in ms-mymoney
+comparisons of spending trends to aggregate data
+automatic categorization, fetches data from all your bank accounts
+overall attitude to help in easing out finance management rather than just maintain logs
+ui looks clean
+online
+mobile updates
+has an aspect of helping complete newbies
- navigation issues...links to overview, features, spending trends etc. come below the fold after your are signed in, before sign in the features come right in the top. Once you are signed-in wont allow a peak at how it work without taking ur account info, lot of people would like to look before give important info. I personally reached the features page after a lot of looking around, realized its on the home page to start with but goest to below the fold after sign in.
+ helps u trust, veriSign etc.
- the writing is not very web-user friendly: long sentences
- in the Features page the layout of info is confusing, and it gives a broken view of the ui rather than a neat flow like in ms-mymoney
+comparisons of spending trends to aggregate data
+automatic categorization, fetches data from all your bank accounts
+overall attitude to help in easing out finance management rather than just maintain logs
Sunday, April 20, 2008
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