Bookfinder

Context

The Municipality of Amsterdam wants to promote reading among schoolchildren. Schoolchildren often no longer visit public libraries, so the only place they can go to read books is the school library. For this reason, in addition to informative books, more and more novels can be found in school libraries. The City wants to help secondary school pupils find reading books quickly and easily in the school library. They want to do this with a kiosk setup: a tablet (iPad) permanently located at the entrance to the library. This runs an app that helps pupils find a book that suits them and tells them where they can find it.

Assignment

The Municipality of Amsterdam requested a visual design for a user interface for searching for one or more books from the school library, for secondary school pupils.

It was important that the Municipality of Amsterdam's house style was used and that it was designed for a tablet (landscape format) for the kiosk setup. 

Concept

The app works as follows: The student can select a number of criteria and then view a list of suitable books. The list can be sorted in various ways and the criteria can be reset if necessary. Pupils can add desired books to a “wish list” and print this list on a receipt or email it. No login is required. The app runs on an iPad mounted on a stand in landscape format.

Result

Research was conducted into the corporate identity of the Municipality of Amsterdam, and based on this, a ‘sub-style’ was created that appeals to the young target group that fits into this context.