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Improved eBook app for avid readers

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Avid readers need features to support their large libraries & reading habits.

These users want a single library for all of their ebooks (including audiobooks). By providing an easy and exceptional e-reading experience, users will be loyal to Amazon Kindle. However, there are several areas of frustration — particularly with large ebook libraries, that are pushing avid readers to other platforms.

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Highlights

MY ROLE

Designer, Researcher

TOOLS

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TIMELINE

7 Months

TEAM

Leo Vogel

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Problem

Users with large libraries containing 100's-1000's of books need features that help them more easily browse and sort their large ebook libraries so they can better plan reading time and have a better awareness of what is currently in their collection.

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Research Findings

Avid readers with large libraries have three major pain points.

Pain Point 1 **Browsing

Pain Point 2 **Reading 2(+) books in parallel

Pain Point 3 **Downloading

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Analysis

Avid readers, who actively switch between 2-4 books depending on mood, have 100's or 1000's of books and get frustrated when they can't find a book or remember why they added a book to their library. They want to spend their time reading their books, not sorting them into folders. Readers also have genre-specific needs and preferences that are not being met.

Personas

Travis the Student Traveler

“Fiction is my leisure reading. Nonfiction, I have to be in the headspace for it.”

“Fiction is my leisure reading. Nonfiction, I have to be in the headspace for it.”

Natasha the Mystery Sleuth

“A lot of the time, as I have so many books, I forget exactly what it might be called. So I have to go line by line to find the book that I want.”

“A lot of the time, as I have so many books, I forget exactly what it might be called. So I have to go line by line to find the book that I want.”

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Ideation

<aside> <img src="/icons/thought_gray.svg" alt="/icons/thought_gray.svg" width="40px" /> How Might We improve the offline reading experience for avid readers with large quantities of books, within the library and within the book, to address the unique needs of different genres so that users can read more books with better recall?

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Value vs Complexity Matrix, Concept Evaluation

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Vision

Primary Goals for Design Phase

  1. Add support for readers who have several active books that they are switching between depending on mood throughout the day and week.
  2. Redesign library view to support easier find-ability through sorting, filtering, and additional book metadata.
  3. Add support for automatically downloading existing and new user content.

Secondary Goals for Design Phase

  1. Explore a spine-based progress and contents UI to improve memory of book chronology (through increased spacial awareness) and to improve in-book navigation.
  2. Add support for controlling book and chapter progress indicators at genre and book levels.

User Stories

  1. As an avid reader I want to switch between multiple active books so that I can read whichever genre I’m currently in the mood for.
  2. As a traveling reader I want automatically download all of my books so that I can read any book in my library when on an airplane without having to think about which book to download ahead of time.
  3. As an avid reader with a large ebook library I want better sorting and filtering options so that I can more easily and quickly find books.

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Design

Task Flows

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Paper Sketches

Some annotated concepts from the idea generation stage. (Miro Board for Detailed View)

Some annotated concepts from the idea generation stage. (Miro Board for Detailed View)

Low-Fidelity Wireframes

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