Designing user interface and user experience application of financial management and planning of BUMDes in the mandalika special economic zone using design thinking

Abstract

Like business entities in general, BUMDes also records financial planning and management to maintain regular use of funds, evaluate materials for business unit development, meet loan requirements, and many other things. BUMDes, in several villages around Mandalika Special Economic Zone (SEZ) located in Central Lombok, Indonesia, has implemented financial management records using a website-based application. However, financial managers at BUMDes prefer to re-record manually. Based on a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) results in this study, BUMDes financial managers had difficulty using the existing application. Therefore, it is necessary to design a user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) application for BUMDes financial planning and management that is easy for the managers to understand and use. One method used to design UI and UX is Design Thinking. Using Design Thinking can make the user easier to understand the problems or needs and create value for potential users. Designing website-based applications using Design Thinking resulted in good usability values. Therefore, this research conducts the UI and UX to design the website-based BUMDes financial planning and management application. The results of this study are in the form of wireframes from applications that follow the needs of BUMDes financial managers.