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Booklander

a single page book app to help users sort the books they have checked out

Overview

Boocalander is a friendly and easy to use single page app, designed to help users sort out which books they have checked out, Along with their corresponding over their due dates. Users also can create, add, edit and delete from a profile.
Tools
Vanilia js , bootstrap, grunt, npm , jquery, sass, Firebase
Timeline
March 15, 2018 -March 20, 2018
Link
BookLander

Initial Concept

Challenge Statement
"How might... an app help users track the books that they have borrowed in the best easiest way possible."
Insight
Based on my previous experience I have observed my nieces’ and nephew struggling to keep track of their personal books and borrowed books
User Research
Interviews were conducted on four people (Father, Mother, two Children). The interview questions were designed to gather information about the interviewees' experience as to how they organize the books they borrowed from the library.

Interview Findings

Activity
They need to have private reading time
Sign up morethan one user
Sign up morethan one user
Schedule accourding to thier favorite
Group reading
Environments
Vanilia js , bootstrap, grunt, npm , jquery, sass, Firebase
Competition
Ebook Reade
Kindle
Bookari

Persona

Yemane Asseghegn, 41, Registered Nurse, Nashville,TN
Background
Degree in Business Administration. He is a Respiratory Therapist. He has four children and he homeschools them. His hope is that they will be an independent intellectuals.
Goals
To read as many books as he can.
Become an author.
Be a Role model to his children
Frustration
Follow up on children's reading.
Overdue library books.
Organizing used books.

Sketches

From the above user research data collections and my defined required features, I created my sketches for the low-fidelity prototype. In this stage’s sketches, I mainly focused on the buttons , the search result page, and the items detail.

Usability Testing

From the above user research data collections and my defined required features, I created my sketches for the low-fidelity prototype. In this stage’s sketches, I mainly focused on the buttons , the search result page, and the items detail.

Required Features

Login
Degree in Business Administration. He is a Respiratory Therapist. He has four children and he homeschools them. His hope is that they will be an independent intellectuals.
Add
User are able to add new books to their account/bookshelf
Edit
Users can edit to their favorites and other books
Search
Allow users to search a new book online
Delete
Allow users to delete a book

Lesson Learned

Going through the whole process, the lesson I learned from this project is:-
Fire base challenges
Logical thinking
Problem solving.