PacePot
A free savings goal calculator that tells you how much to put aside each month. No bank connection, no account, no nonsense. I own every part of it: product decisions, design, build, and the domain it lives on.
The brief
Most savings calculators are a form on a finance blog, built to capture leads rather than help. PacePot needed to feel like a product: fast, private, and useful within the first thirty seconds.
The audience is anyone saving for something specific, a holiday, a car, an emergency fund, who wants a clear monthly number instead of a spreadsheet.
What I built
- Goal calculator with monthly pace, timeline, and progress tracking
- Savings pots for organising multiple goals at once
- A guided spotlight tour for first-time users
- Save List for keeping plans between visits, stored locally
- Everything runs in the browser: no sign-up, data stays on the device
Design decisions
Trust drives everything in a money tool, so the design leads with the free, no sign-up, data-stays-local promise before asking the user to do anything.
The interface is dark, calm, and figure-focused. Numbers get tabular treatment so totals do not jitter as you type, and the mobile layout was designed first because saving plans happen on phones.
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