organizing book club
Book Club Buddy is a website built to be a book club’s personal assistant
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Readers can enjoy the fun of being part of a community without the stress of constant scheduling issues
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Features include:
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Making scheduling meetings effortless with the calendar feature
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Easy-to-access zoom link for clubs that meet online
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Discussion boards for members who want a place to discuss the books and keep in touch between meetings
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List of books members have previously read
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Member information area and more.
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For an information architecture course, our final project was to come up with an original idea for a site or improve on an existing one. I chose the former, and came up with Book Club Buddy.
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major content items
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Calendar
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Past meetings, schedule a meeting, scheduling poll, upcoming meetings
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Club Info
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Add members, books we’ve read, club zoom link, member roster
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Explore
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Authors, books, genres, recommendations, search
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Profile
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My favorites, my posts, my reviews and ratings
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Options
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Create a new book club
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Discussion
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Start Discussion, vote on upcoming books
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persona
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freelisting​
​Through freelisting we identified:
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Ideal navigation categories
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Subcategories and their location within each category
card sorting
1. open card sort
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created 13 cards
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8 categories
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7 participants
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results indicated that we had a few strong categories however we did not get the results we were expecting
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realized that some of our cards and categories were too vague
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needed to condense the categories and make more specific
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2. ideal card sort
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Created 21 cards
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6 categories
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3 participants
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Completed “ideal card sort” after open card sort
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Eliminated and changed a few categories and added cards
​3. closed card sort
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created 15 cards
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6 categories
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8 participants
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yielded stronger results from the changes we made
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“Club Info” was much more successful than what we previously had (“Members”)
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changes made to the cards also helped users identify their ideal category more successfully
treejack testing
task 1: invite friends to your current book club
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Findings
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10 participants with a 70% success rate
task 2: RSVP for an upcoming meeting
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Findings
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10 participants with a 100% success rate
task 3: create a new book poll
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Findings
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10 participants with a 60% success rate
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Task took the longest for participants to complete
sitemap
wireframes
