Carnegie Mellon School of Design

Envelopes — Teaching Young Adults How to Manage Their Personal Finances

Kaitlin Wilkinson

I began by looking at topics I wished I had been taught or had struggled learning. I then decided I wanted to focus on budgeting. It seemed to be a topic that was often overlooked in school and something a lot of people were never explicitly taught. I decided to focus on two main subjects: the envelope method and the 50/20/30 method. In addition to these two methods, I also wanted to focus on making the abstract more concrete through visuals.