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Udacity Course Project

Improved eBook app for avid readers

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Summary

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

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Value vs Complexity Matrix, Concept Evaluation

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