OVERVIEW
Summary
An independent budgeting web application, designed and built solo from a blank Figma canvas to a live deployment.
Nobody commissioned it, which is most of what it demonstrates.
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Why I built it
Financial interfaces have the same disease as clinical ones and less excuse for it. Most budgeting apps answer a question nobody asked — a wall of charts, six colour-coded categories, three competing totals — when the actual question is almost always singular: can I afford this, or not.
I also wanted a product that was entirely mine, where no constraint was organisational and every decision on screen was a decision I had made and could defend.
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What it does
Budget tracking with the numbers that matter given priority in the layout rather than equal billing with everything else. Clean data presentation, deliberately little chrome, and a visual hierarchy that puts the single most useful figure first.
Live at budget-bliss-nine.vercel.app, with the Figma file public too — so the design intent and the shipped result can be compared directly, which is a comparison portfolios usually avoid inviting.
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Design decisions worth defending
Restraint with colour. Financial UIs reach for red and green almost reflexively, which turns routine information into a verdict on your month and fails anyone with a colour vision deficiency at the same time. Position and typographic weight carry the hierarchy instead.
Fewer views, each doing more. A side project has no roadmap pressure, so there was no reason to add a screen that existed only to justify a nav item.
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Shipping it alone
Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind, deployed on Vercel. No handoff, no ticket queue, no negotiation — design in the morning, implemented and deployed the same day.
Working solo end-to-end is the clearest illustration of the case this whole portfolio makes: with one person holding both halves, the loop between intent and running software is measured in hours rather than sprints.
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The outcome
A live fintech product built and shipped without being asked, and a clean demonstration that the same instinct applies whether the domain is medicine or money: find the number the person came for, and get everything else out of its way.