Design a mobile tool to help communities safely host book-sharing events in a pandemic. No matter how large or small the event, it must introduce or increase access to new or used books to school-age children.
We both used Figma as our main design tool at the time of this project, so we didn't have much time to really get accustomed to Adobe XD. As a result, we ran into many technical difficulties when trying to work and had to improvise in order to be able to keep working. When we got in touch with some other individuals who had participated in the jam, they also shared that they had similar issues as we did.
This project actually inspired me to try to get used to Adobe XD, which is why my Designlab project is made using Adobe XD.
Both of us had good memories of book fairs and was incredibly excited to work on this project, seeing as most events had been halted at that time due to the pandemic.
When thinking about how to adapt book fairs to work in the pandemic, I was reminded by how much of a trend Trunk or Treating was during the previous Halloween and decided to bring that into our project as an option. During my research, I also came across a study from Vietnam that analyzed the first online national book fair along with fairgoers' experience and insights.
Campfire Reads allows you to plan and host bookfairs for your own communities of different kinds, from hosting it out of car trunks to hosting it virtually. Planners are able to choose book collections curated by the app that they want to offer in their fair and addons such as app activities and decorations to lessen the planning pressure.
It also allows fairgoers to participate in activities that allows them to learn about new books or test their knowledge to earn coupons and be recommended new books. Fairgoers do not need to be at the bookfair to be able to participate in the activities.
We built the app on Adobe XD.
We both used Figma as our main design tool at the time of this project, so we didn't have much time to really get accustomed to Adobe XD. As a result, we ran into many technical difficulties when trying to work and had to improvise in order to be able to keep working. When we got in touch with some other individuals who had participated in the jam, they also shared that they had similar issues as we did.
This project actually inspired me to try to get used to Adobe XD, which is why my Designlab project is made using Adobe XD.
Considering all of the troubleshooting that we had with getting used to a whole new design tool in a short period of time, I'm proud of how we have managed to create an app that helps both audiences that we wanted to cater to - adults who wishes to bring book fairs to their communities and kids who wish to participate in book fairs.
At a couple of points in the app, we ran into the issue of not really designing for the right audience as we both wanted this to be an app where adults can plan book fairs and an app where kids can learn about and test their knowledge and interact with the book fair. We had opted out of doing personas in favor of more time in designing, but I believe that this contributed to us being so disjointed when designing for an audience in mind. Now whenever I work on a project personas are a necessary step for me, whether provisional or otherwise.
I believe we'd want to take a step further in defining the app's options for kids and book fair management for adults. I even imagine that there's a chance that the app would be split into two separate apps in order to fully develop both sides and not try to do everything in one app. This would also avoid the highly potential situation of a kid trying to host a book fair if it was on the same app.
Design a mobile tool to help communities safely host book-sharing events in a pandemic. No matter how large or small the event, it must introduce or increase access to new or used books to school-age children.
Both of us had good memories of book fairs and was incredibly excited to work on this project, seeing as most events had been halted at that time due to the pandemic.
When thinking about how to adapt book fairs to work in the pandemic, I was reminded by how much of a trend Trunk or Treating was during the previous Halloween and decided to bring that into our project as an option. During my research, I also came across a study from Vietnam that analyzed the first online national book fair along with fairgoers' experience and insights.
Both of us had good memories of book fairs and was incredibly excited to work on this project, seeing as most events had been halted at that time due to the pandemic.
When thinking about how to adapt book fairs to work in the pandemic, I was reminded by how much of a trend Trunk or Treating was during the previous Halloween and decided to bring that into our project as an option. During my research, I also came across a study from Vietnam that analyzed the first online national book fair along with fairgoers' experience and insights.
Campfire Reads allows you to plan and host bookfairs for your own communities of different kinds, from hosting it out of car trunks to hosting it virtually. Planners are able to choose book collections curated by the app that they want to offer in their fair and addons such as app activities and decorations to lessen the planning pressure.
It also allows fairgoers to participate in activities that allows them to learn about new books or test their knowledge to earn coupons and be recommended new books. Fairgoers do not need to be at the bookfair to be able to participate in the activities.
We built the app on Adobe XD.
We both used Figma as our main design tool at the time of this project, so we didn't have much time to really get accustomed to Adobe XD. As a result, we ran into many technical difficulties when trying to work and had to improvise in order to be able to keep working. When we got in touch with some other individuals who had participated in the jam, they also shared that they had similar issues as we did.
This project actually inspired me to try to get used to Adobe XD, which is why my Designlab project is made using Adobe XD.
Considering all of the troubleshooting that we had with getting used to a whole new design tool in a short period of time, I'm proud of how we have managed to create an app that helps both audiences that we wanted to cater to - adults who wishes to bring book fairs to their communities and kids who wish to participate in book fairs.
At a couple of points in the app, we ran into the issue of not really designing for the right audience as we both wanted this to be an app where adults can plan book fairs and an app where kids can learn about and test their knowledge and interact with the book fair. We had opted out of doing personas in favor of more time in designing, but I believe that this contributed to us being so disjointed when designing for an audience in mind. Now whenever I work on a project personas are a necessary step for me, whether provisional or otherwise.
I believe we'd want to take a step further in defining the app's options for kids and book fair management for adults. I even imagine that there's a chance that the app would be split into two separate apps in order to fully develop both sides and not try to do everything in one app. This would also avoid the highly potential situation of a kid trying to host a book fair if it was on the same app.
Design a mobile tool to help communities safely host book-sharing events in a pandemic. No matter how large or small the event, it must introduce or increase access to new or used books to school-age children.
Both of us had good memories of book fairs and was incredibly excited to work on this project, seeing as most events had been halted at that time due to the pandemic.
When thinking about how to adapt book fairs to work in the pandemic, I was reminded by how much of a trend Trunk or Treating was during the previous Halloween and decided to bring that into our project as an option. During my research, I also came across a study from Vietnam that analyzed the first online national book fair along with fairgoers' experience and insights.
Both of us had good memories of book fairs and was incredibly excited to work on this project, seeing as most events had been halted at that time due to the pandemic.
When thinking about how to adapt book fairs to work in the pandemic, I was reminded by how much of a trend Trunk or Treating was during the previous Halloween and decided to bring that into our project as an option. During my research, I also came across a study from Vietnam that analyzed the first online national book fair along with fairgoers' experience and insights.
Campfire Reads allows you to plan and host bookfairs for your own communities of different kinds, from hosting it out of car trunks to hosting it virtually. Planners are able to choose book collections curated by the app that they want to offer in their fair and addons such as app activities and decorations to lessen the planning pressure.
It also allows fairgoers to participate in activities that allows them to learn about new books or test their knowledge to earn coupons and be recommended new books. Fairgoers do not need to be at the bookfair to be able to participate in the activities.
We built the app on Adobe XD.
We both used Figma as our main design tool at the time of this project, so we didn't have much time to really get accustomed to Adobe XD. As a result, we ran into many technical difficulties when trying to work and had to improvise in order to be able to keep working. When we got in touch with some other individuals who had participated in the jam, they also shared that they had similar issues as we did.
This project actually inspired me to try to get used to Adobe XD, which is why my Designlab project is made using Adobe XD.
Considering all of the troubleshooting that we had with getting used to a whole new design tool in a short period of time, I'm proud of how we have managed to create an app that helps both audiences that we wanted to cater to - adults who wishes to bring book fairs to their communities and kids who wish to participate in book fairs.
At a couple of points in the app, we ran into the issue of not really designing for the right audience as we both wanted this to be an app where adults can plan book fairs and an app where kids can learn about and test their knowledge and interact with the book fair. We had opted out of doing personas in favor of more time in designing, but I believe that this contributed to us being so disjointed when designing for an audience in mind. Now whenever I work on a project personas are a necessary step for me, whether provisional or otherwise.
I believe we'd want to take a step further in defining the app's options for kids and book fair management for adults. I even imagine that there's a chance that the app would be split into two separate apps in order to fully develop both sides and not try to do everything in one app. This would also avoid the highly potential situation of a kid trying to host a book fair if it was on the same app.
