Open AccessEvaluating the Usability of Emergency Fund Target Web System among Young Adults
Author(s) -
Izzatie Zakaria,
Nor Azzyati Hashim
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of computing research and innovation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2600-8793
DOI - 10.24191/jcrinn.v2i4.60
Subject(s) - usability , business , investment fund , investment management , debt , order (exchange) , finance , web application , medical emergency , world wide web , computer science , medicine , market liquidity , human–computer interaction
Young adults need to know the importance of having a good financial management to preventthe engagement in extensive debt. One of the ways is by having savingfor emergency fund.Emergency fund is vital as it can be used during any unwanted events such as job loss, healthemergency and other unexpected expenses. Most existing web systems for personal financialmanagement are more towards budgeting and tracking expenditures. Thus, to encouragepeople especially young adults to build emergency fund, a web system called Emergency FundTarget (EFT) was developed.This paper investigates the ease-of-use and benefits of EFT websystem among young adults. Evaluation forthis web system using usability testing involved15young adults who already being employed. From the findings, it is discovered that EFT systemis easy to use and enables users to learn about emergency fund in order to use the system tokeep track their saving for emergency fund. For the future works of EFT, the web system willenhance to advice users who has completed the emergency fund saving on moving intoinvestment for short, medium and long term financial goals.