THE LIBRARY APP CASE STUDY

For this project I set out to create an app that met the needs of Middle School Librarians.

Interviews: Pamela Middle/High School Librarian Worked as a Librarian for 5 Years Pain Points: Building relationships and outreach, reaching beyond yourself and connecting with other people Turning people on to tech, getting time to train people on it, most people don’t know about all the resources Getting Students to love and want to read Opportunities: AI assisted search, helps newbies. AI could assist search to give key word terms. AI to help people come up with book they might need. Social Elements Book Reviews Book Bucket List Book Tracker. Krystal Elementary School Librarian Worked as a Librarian for 11 Years Pain Points: Adapting to all the new digital resources, introducing it, and instructing it so that kids could use it Try to get them to read and not just give info, get them to check out books Having more books, especially for older kids, that are interesting to them that are Online Opportunities: Interesting to have some kind of info that would provide more topics that she is looking for so that they could include in the digital library or a list of resources the kids could go to for a report, really quickly access and just show the kids for them to go to for sources List of book they can read on tablet.
Interview Overview: "My programs for the back end of the library are fine, something for the students would be more helpful" Said by Pamela. After the interviews it was made clear that instead of designing something for the librarians to use, designing something for the students to use would be more helpful for the librarians.
New Intended User: Middle School Students
Final How Might We Question: How might we design an app that encourages middle school students to read and use the library's provided resources?
FINAL DESIGN
The Library Onboarding
The Library Walk Through
Reflection: Through this project I learned how to quickly design an app that meets the needs of a user. Additionally, I learned more about the importance of consistent button placement and formats, and also how the color scheme can shift an apps feeling. The biggest challenge during this process was the fast turn around, this caused there to be less time for research and user testing of the app. Future Vision: In the future it would be great to get more user testing of a wider range of librarians and middle school students. Additionally, in future iterations it would be great to incorporate the features I could not in this iteration: On boarding for each pages features, Ability to filter messages in book clubs to avoid spoilers, Building out more of the pages and features

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