A mobile app that allows users to personalize their book tracking, discover recommendations, and connect with fellow readers.
Product Designer
4 weeks
Reading remains a popular pastime across all ages, with the growing popularity of ebooks and audiobooks adding to the diverse options available today. With numerous formats and thousands of new releases each year, readers have more choices than ever.
A comprehensive app that meets all of users' book tracking needs does not currently exist.
Biblio helps users track their reading journeys, personalize their experience, and receive intuitive book recommendations.
Taking a non-linear approach through the five stages below, user-oriented solutions are continually refined to ensure effectiveness and innovation.
Three popular book-tracking sites were compared to understand what existing users have been working with and what can be improved upon.
5 readers of various ages and reading habits were interviewed to gain a thorough understanding of users’ book-tracking needs that both are/aren’t being met by other apps in the market.
To better understand what users need, I created a user persona to highlight common challenges users face when reading books.
With these newfound insights, we move forward to constructing a user-centric site that will allow users to seamlessly finish a reading journey and step into a new one.
Reading is a calm, yet energetic and adventurous experience and I set forth to capture exactly that with Biblio's branding. The color palette consists of bright pastels while the logo is made up of small stack of books using Biblio's wordmark as a bookend.
The initial low-fidelity wireframes sketched out were inspired by the apps explored during the market research. The intent was to not veer too far away from screens and flows that users are already used to. Upon receiving feedback and bringing the wireframes to higher fidelity, an opportunity rose to create a new screen by synthesizing existing screens with features that competitors lack.
Full Low-fi WireframesFull High-fi Wireframes
After developing the high-fidelity prototype, usability testing was conducted on Maze with 5 users to determine whether the app’s design and added features meets user needs and is intuitive enough to help users easily complete their tasks.
Overall, users enjoyed the look and feel of the app, in addition to the diverse functions and customization options offered by the app.
A few technical issues arose that prevented users from completing the task and feedback was provided about enlarging the privacy icons and adding more rate-able categories.
