BOOK UNIVERSE
Book universe is the great way to Buy Sell and Exchange the books.
Book Universe is the app used for buying, selling, and exchanging pre-owned books. It has a wide range of books on sale from hundreds of individual sellers.It's now simpler than ever to sell, buy, and exchange your pre-owned books online. There's no longer any need to throw your books in the trash or leave them to collect dust on the shelf. You can make extra cash from the comfort of your home with Our Book Universe. The icing on the cake is that you can opt for the exchange of books from the buyers in place of cash.
On this app, you can favorite items or save them if you're not looking to buy them immediately. It allows you to communicate directly with sellers, where you can ask about the product or get in touch if you have issues with your item.
This application lets the sellers describe the condition of the book while keeping the price range suitable. These preowned books can be bought for a fraction of their original price, with most of them still being in great condition.
Role
UX/UI Design
Illustrator
User Scenario
Software
Figma
Figjam
Google Suite,Illustrator,Maze
Duration
3 Months
Books are a luxury item for a large chunk of people whose incomes are low. Hence, in order to read, they buy second hand books which are priced far less than the original.
Goal
Scope
Design Strategy, Research, User Interviews, UI/UX Design, Prototyping, User Testing, and Presentation
Problem Statement
Individual project
Our goal is to help platform users buy, sell, or exchange books. Make the user experience easier by helping them easily search and select books suitable for their pockets.
UX Designing process
WHO
Book readeres who are interested in sharing buying and selling pre owned books. Target group identification based on Age and professsion.
WHAT
To Buy,Sell or Excahnging of books.
Design thinking process
Team
Size
User research
User interviews
Research Analysis
Affinity Mapping
Pain Points
User Requirements
UserPersonas
UserScenario
Information Architecture
Taskflow
Sitemap
Low- and high-fidelity frames
Color & Typography
Visual Screen
Heuristic Evaluation
Usability Testing
Visual Refinement
User Research
To build empathy with users, we interviewed people from various backgrounds. We prepared a questionnaire to conduct user interviews and to understand the needs, goals, and pain points, and we conducted personal and telephonic interviews with a qualitative approach.
User groups
User Statement
Affinity Mapping
User Personas
and this took inspiration to many and the friends from NGO, his family members and other known persons encouraged this idea and started to buy and sell pre owned books
Later he started his own Second hand book business and helped many people with reasonable prices
Interviewed
5 People
WHEN
Whenever we need
User groups
10 -60+
HOW
Relax and laid back and select your book with just a click. Abundant choice, Language flexibilit, customer review
Occupation
Techies, second-hand book store owners, Doctors students, and parents who are opting books for kids
We gathered all the data from our research, and we had to make sense of it. After the interview, I synthesised the data collected using the affinity mapping method to find out any patterns. I divided the data into multiple categories, comprising user statement, age, motivation, goals, pain points, personality traits, and technology expertise.
Age : 37
Education : B.tech Electronics
Language ; English, Tamil & Telugu
Profession : Book Seller
Location : Hyderabad, India.
Tech Literate : High
Genrith Matt
“Books are uniquely portable magic.”
Personality
Counselor
Reader
Idealist
Habits
Reading Books
Learning New things
Goals
To buy a desired book either first-hand or second-hand.
To sell his used books at the best price.
Motivation
cultivate the book reading habits
Read personality-development and financial literacy-related books for my personal growth
Pain points
Find customers for selling secondhand books.
It is difficult to know what condition of book is acceptable by prospective customers
Bio
Rakesh is the owner of a second-hand book store, He is also an active member of an NGO
He loves to read books.
He started this journey with passion to help the people who needed to buy books at a reasonable price.
Paying her college fee is the big thing for her
so he decided to start selling his pre loved books to the people who needs
But later, this pandemic changed everything, and he suffered so much loss in his business that he was not able to pay his rent.
sometimes they all need the books at the same time, so it became a tough task to manage the books
he observes many people buying books and keeping them in shelves after reading and they don’t know what to do with the used books.
he even observes people who cant afford to buy new items and taking xerox copies, no matter how they use them.
And now he is very much happy to know about our mobile app and he want to be the seller and he wants to restart his business.
so when we did survey for our book app . she is very happy to hear about our services.
she feels like it will be helpfull for her academics
Task Flow
At times it became a big task to buy their academic books
so they started exchanging books once they were done with the semisters from seniors to juniors
Based on the features assigned, the task flow was created. It depicts the proper flow of the app from start to finish.
Sitemap
The sitemap has created to show the app s information architecture to help understand the userflow and makes a better designer decissions.
Low Fidelity Wireframes
Heuristic Evaluation
High Fidelity Wireframes
Performed a Heuristic Evaluation for the book universe app based on the usability principles and guidelines to examine the intuitiveness and ease of using an interface.
Visibility of system status
It was confusing if the payment was being processed or if there was an issue with the payment. The system status of payment progression was displayed on the payment screen post - evaluation.
Consistency and standards
As there are many trending books in the homepage, instead of carousel I m using see more option to get a better idea of the list of books.
Recognition & Recall
Searching for items was not easy before; later, we designed this with an easy search bar. Post-evaluation, I have redesigned the screen and implemented this.
Consistency and standards
Users should not have to wonder whether different words, situations, or actions mean the same thing.
Color Schemes
Based on the book app theme, I have chosen my colors. The UI color theme is a combination of light and dark colors.
Blue is the color that showcases Trust, Reliability and coolness
Yellow, on the other hand, is set to convey warmth, cheer, and happiness.
Thus, blue and yellow are used as my primary colors.
Moreover Black and white have been used for the text to provide better readability.
Typography
I have choosen the ROBOTO font from the SAN SERIF FAMILY. Through out the app, I have used the same font and enhance the readability.
Iconography
Visual Screens
Usability testing
Task
This testing is a technique to evaluate the product by testing it on the users. This will help us to identify roadblocks, confusions and uncover opportunities to improve the product and overall user interface experience. I have conducted this test with five people with the help of MAZE tool. They have tested and shared their feedback for the same.
Search a book from home page and try to buy it directly
Search for your favourite author, admire his collection of books, and try to exchange with the seller.
Start selling your book in the app.
Buy your books from the cart and make payments through a credit card.
Observations
Users were able to effortlessly search for a specific book using the search bar and the filters provided
Payment through a credit card was achieved with ease. Users preferred to add few more UPI options, which was taken care in the app
Users are very happy with the exchange of books instead of paying money.
The visual designs are further refined after usability testing in order to improve the user experience and also make it aesthetically pleasing.
Age : 27
Education : MBBS
Language ; English, Tamil, Telugu&Hindi
Profession : Doctor
Location : Chennai, India.
Tech Literate : High
Bhavz Bella
“I’m a doctor by profession and reader by passion”
Personality
Extrovert
Reader
calm
Habits
Traveling and writing Journal
Reading Books
Goals
Browse wide range of books for buying
Buy used books
Able to pay through multiple payment options.
To get an expedited delivery of books.
Motivation
cultivate book-reading habits
I read personality development and financial literacy-related books for my personal growth. It is difficult to know what condition of the book is acceptable to prospective customers.
Painpoints
Find customers for selling second-hand books
It is difficult to know what condition of the book is acceptable to prospective customers.
Bio
Nakshathra is a doctor, and she loves to enjoy her free time by reading books.
She love travelling, writing travel journal and blogging.