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Being an avid reader throughout my life, I’ve always found it hard to keep track of the books I read without facing various issues such as keeping track of what I’ve read and how I could improve my reading goals. On top of that, I wanted to see what other people were reading and what I could learn from them. All of my wishes came true within the past few years when I discovered Goodreads and its capabilities for tracking, finding, and discussing books with people of similar interests as mine. Or at least, that’s what I thought.
Soon after discovering Goodreads, I began to encounter various bugs and UI issues that made it feel impossible to use the website app. There was always so much going on on every page, and many of the functionalities felt either redundant or interruptive for an otherwise simple tool. What’s more, is that I never fully understood how to use the social networking aspect either. Eventually, I stopped using Goodreads altogether.
It wasn’t until recently that I decided I would try to find a solution to the web app UI in my own way. I knew that if I did the research and put in the creative effort, I could redesign the main website components to build a friendlier UI with a smoother UX that my past self would have thanked me for.
The current website design has an outdated and cluttered UI which makes it difficult for me to find the information I need. The page layouts feel unintuitive and make it easy for me to become distracted and disengaged.
Improve user flow by simplifying the UI through re-designing key pages: