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Put student debt beside the wealth of the institution.

Debt Is Fun turns university finance data into a personal, visual comparison. Pick a school and see federal student borrowing alongside institutional endowment wealth through live clocks, rankings, and shareable cards.

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Debt Is Fun

University selected

Two financial realities, one card.

Federal student borrowing and institutional endowment wealth become a direct, shareable comparison.

Live valuesSchool rankingsShareable card

The job

Make the hard part explicit.

Large financial totals are easy to publish and hard to feel. Student borrowing and university wealth are usually discussed in separate tables, leaving the relationship between them abstract.

The approach

Build around the real workflow.

The project places the figures on the same surface and gives them motion. A user can choose an institution, compare the measures, explore rankings, and make a card that carries the comparison into a conversation.

The distinction

Keep the product focused.

It treats public data as something to experience and share—not merely another spreadsheet to download.

How it helps

A small tool with a clear job.

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School-level comparisons

Choose a university and bring its borrowing and endowment figures into one focused view.

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Live clocks

Use motion to make the scale and pace of large financial values easier to perceive.

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Rankings and advanced views

Move beyond one card to compare institutions and inspect the underlying relationships from other angles.

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Shareable cards

Turn an individual comparison into a designed artifact made for sharing and discussion.

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See Debt Is Fun in its own habitat.

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