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Goodreads Mobile redesign
The story
Goodreads is widely used by book lovers — but its mobile app is outdated, cluttered, and inconsistent with user expectations for modern UX.
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Goodreads’ mobile UX is unintuitive, cluttered, and inconsistent with user expectations for modern UX.
Outcome
I designed a mobile Goodreads app with improved usability, aesthetics, and information discoverability.
Problem
Role Product designer
Timeline 1 week
The Process
I’m proud of this project because I was able to design a static prototype from scratch within a week as part of a product design challenge. Due to the short timeline, I focused on a single high-fidelity pass grounded in real user feedback and clear design goals.
I collected feedback on the current from five users: myself and four friends (casual but dedicated Goodreads users :)). My goal was to identify key pain points in the mobile app experience and opportunities for a more modern and intuitive design.
First I redesigned the major tabs of the app, defining the visual style and information architecture. Then I targeted the main pain points I had gathered, redesigning user flows, adding asked-for features, and making the app more social media focused.
With not much time left I still wanted to gather feedback, so I had users mock-step through the app and describe their thought processes. Users said the design was much more usable and useful, while still maintaining the heart of the original.
The Designs
Feature #1 - Streamlined UI
The current Goodreads mobile UI is cluttered and unintuitive.
Feature #2 - Personal tracking
Goodreads users mostly use the app to find and track their own books and reading, but the current UX makes it hard for them to find books, log them, and maintain personal notes and reviews. One of my main goals with this redesign was to improve on these major pain points.
Feature #3 - Social aspects
Goodreads currently has some social features but fails to build them out enough to be useful or enticing for users to use to interact with one another. I streamlined the social feed and made it easier for users to view friends’ reviews and activities.
CC.
Seattle, WA
ContactGoodreads Mobile redesign
The story
Goodreads is widely used by book lovers — but its mobile app is outdated, cluttered, and inconsistent with user expectations for modern UX.
View the figma
Goodreads’ mobile UX is unintuitive, cluttered, and inconsistent with user expectations for modern UX.
I designed a mobile Goodreads app with improved usability, aesthetics, and information discoverability.
Problem
Outcome
Role Product designer
Timeline 1 week
The Process
I’m proud of this project because I was able to design a static prototype from scratch within a week as part of a product design challenge. Due to the short timeline, I focused on a single high-fidelity pass grounded in real user feedback and clear design goals.
I collected feedback on the current from five users: myself and four friends (casual but dedicated Goodreads users :)). My goal was to identify key pain points in the mobile app experience and opportunities for a more modern and intuitive design.
First I redesigned the major tabs of the app, defining the visual style and information architecture. Then I targeted the main pain points I had gathered, redesigning user flows, adding asked-for features, and making the app more social media focused.
With not much time left I still wanted to gather feedback, so I had users mock-step through the app and describe their thought processes. Users said the design was much more usable and useful, while still maintaining the heart of the original.
The Designs
Feature #1 - Streamlined UI
The current Goodreads mobile UI is cluttered and unintuitive.
Feature #2 - Personal tracking
Goodreads users mostly use the app to find and track their own books and reading, but the current UX makes it hard for them to find books, log them, and maintain personal notes and reviews. One of my main goals with this redesign was to improve on these major pain points.
Feature #3 - Social aspects
Goodreads currently has some social features but fails to build them out enough to be useful or enticing for users to use to interact with one another. I streamlined the social feed and made it easier for users to view friends’ reviews and activities.
CC.
Seattle, WA
ContactGoodreads Mobile redesign
The story
Goodreads is widely used by book lovers — but its mobile app is outdated, cluttered, and inconsistent with user expectations for modern UX.
Problem
Outcome
Goodreads’ mobile UX is unintuitive, cluttered, and inconsistent with user expectations for modern UX.
I designed a mobile Goodreads app with improved usability, aesthetics, and information discoverability.
View the figma
Role Product designer
Timeline 1 week
The Process
I’m proud of this project because I was able to design a static prototype from scratch within a week as part of a product design challenge. Due to the short timeline, I focused on a single high-fidelity pass. I prioritized designing thoughtful improvements to navigation, content structure, and visual clarity based on the most frequent pain points I gathered.
I collected feedback on the current from five users: myself and four friends (casual but dedicated Goodreads users :)). My goal was to identify key pain points in the mobile app experience and opportunities for a more modern and intuitive design.
First I redesigned the major tabs of the app, defining the visual style and information architecture. Then I targeted the main pain points I had gathered, redesigning user flows, adding asked-for features, and making the app more social media focused.
With not much time left I still wanted to gather feedback, so I had users mock-step through the app and describe their thought processes. Users said the design was much more usable and useful, while still maintaining the heart of the original.
The Designs
Feature #1 - Streamlined UI
The current Goodreads mobile UI is cluttered and unintuitive. Users state that it is hard to access important features while the app puts its more rarely used features front and center. I restructured how the mobile app is set up, aiming to prioritize features and flows users use the most.
Feature #2 - Personal tracking
Goodreads users mostly use the app to find and track their own books and reading, but the current UX makes it hard for them to find books, log them, and maintain personal notes and reviews. One of my main goals with this redesign was to improve on these major pain points.
Feature #3 - Social aspects
Goodreads currently has some social features but fails to build them out enough to be useful or enticing for users to use to interact with one another. I streamlined the social feed and made it easier for users to view friends’ reviews and activities.
CC.
Seattle, WA
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