Bye-buy
Won Kyung Jung
“Buy less for yourself, give more to others.” Online shopping is how many people spend money. Buying things—both big and small, necessary and frivolous—is often as easy as hitting a single button. Spending money online is often too easy, and what we buy ends up feeling unfulfilled. Rather than consuming unnecessary products, what if we donate more to our community who are in need of help? Bye-Buy is an app that encourages users to purchase less for themselves, and instead donate more to others. With the goal of preventing purchases of unnecessary goods, Bye-Buy alerts users before they make a purchase online and prompts them to donate that amount of money to a charity instead. Whenever the users decide to make a donation, the app records the amount and shows the total donated in the form of a receipt, which highlights the importance of their decisions. How to implement the way this app does to our daily lives? Spend less for ourselves, give more for others! One small decision can make big impacts.