UX / UI
UX / UI
UX / UI

Bookd

Bookd

Bookd

An application designed to connect people who share a common passion: reading.

An application designed to connect people who share a common passion: reading.

An application designed to connect people who share a common passion: reading.

Figma, Illustrator
2022

About the Project

In recent years, review and tracking applications for movies or music have become very popular. However, I noticed that similar options for reading do not achieve their goals correctly. Some of them maintain a very outdated design with a terrible user experience, making them difficult to use, while others do not focus correctly on their community, one of the main factors of functional apps for movies and music. The identification of these problems and my own needs as a reader gave rise to Bookd.

Bookd is an application that allows users to keep a record of books read and to be read, comment on those they are reading, rate them, or even create customized lists about them. In addition, the community section allows users to connect with others who have similar tastes and create reading clubs where people from all over the world can gather to read and discuss books.

Approach

The main challenge in designing the app was to combine user interaction and community building with the logging and discovery of books.

To achieve this, the home screen was structured into three main sections: Books, Libraries, and News. Each of these sections allows the user to stay updated with trends and news in the literary world while discovering the activities of the users they follow.

The screen for each book conveniently contains the most important information about it, along with options to interact, whether to rate it, mark it as read, update progress, or add it to the reading list. Additionally, users can see the reviews of the book from people they follow and read the most popular reviews.

In the community section is where the biggest interaction among users takes place, through reading clubs. Users can join existing clubs or create their own, whether open to everyone or exclusive by invitation. Additionally, profiles with literary tastes similar to the user's are shown. This section offers an interactive experience with other readers in a unique way that is not found in any other similar app.

This project was designed as part of the Introduction to Design course of the Bachelor's Degree in Digital Technology at the Torcuato Di Tella University.