Chegg Life helps students and early-career individuals navigate major life transitions with ease, clarity, and a touch of fun. This carousel series was created to demystify personal finance tips for young adults living independently for the first time, using an engaging, accessible visual style.

Design a dynamic, scrollable Instagram carousel to:

Empower Gen Z students and new grads with simple, practical financial tips

Align with Chegg’s brand tone of being friendly, encouraging, and solutions-oriented

Drive engagement and saves through colorful, relatable content that feels made for them, not at them

The series blended financial literacy with bold, youthful design, pairing real-world advice with a playful tone and highly visual layouts. Each tip was designed to feel bite-sized, manageable, and positive — avoiding traditional finance content’s overwhelming or dry tone.

The structure combined:

Numbered posts (for easy carousel flow)

Punchy headline takeaways

Brief, digestible body text

Bright, layered backgrounds for movement and energy

Canva (Layout, Typography, Text Effects)

Photoshop (Photo cropping, light treatment)

By blending practical advice with a vibrant, human design style, this carousel series makes financial literacy feel less intimidating and more empowering for students stepping into adulthood. 6 simple steps — countless new possibilities.