{"id":183,"date":"2025-07-06T22:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T22:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.create.ou.edu\/des3633\/?p=183"},"modified":"2025-07-06T22:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T22:29:34","slug":"topic-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/des3633\/2025\/07\/06\/topic-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Figures: A Budgeting App for Gen Zs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the average student loan debt at $37,338 and 31% of Gen Z lacking a savings account, there is a clear need for a seamless and organized system. Young adults (18-25) often struggle with budgeting and financial planning, yet user-friendly apps to support their goals are lacking. Our group worked together to address this gap by designing a solution that empowers young adults to take control of their finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Figures is a mobile app that assists with managing debt, future expenses, savings, and budgets while preventing unnecessary purchases. A key feature is an AI chat that engages with users to evaluate spending decisions, keeping them informed and accountable in meaningful ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project was developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairejonescreative.com\/portfolio-2\/physio-n74gk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Claire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jarrettgarza.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jarrett<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tabytharoa.myportfolio.com\/figures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tabytha<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the average student loan debt at $37,338 and 31% of Gen Z lacking a savings account, there is a clear need for a seamless and organized system. Young adults (18-25) often struggle with budgeting and financial planning, yet user-friendly apps to support their goals are lacking. Our group worked together to address this gap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-work","tag-fall-2023","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/des3633\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/des3633\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/des3633\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/des3633\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/des3633\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/des3633\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/des3633\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/des3633\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/des3633\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/des3633\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}