4books — The key ideas of the best business books, in Italian, to read or listen to.
Intro
Founded by well-known digital entrepreneur and broadcaster Marco Montemagno, 4books is the abstracts platform that keeps you up-to-date on the latest business books.
With an annual subscription, 4books includes 4 abstracts of recently published books and 1 bestseller translated into Italian, available as text or as an audiobook.
Year
2018
Role — Fields
UI/UX Design, Branding
The focus of 4books — Make knowledge more accessible by providing the key takeaways of the latest and most interesting non-fiction books right in your pocket, at any time, ready to be read or listened to in 15 to 20 minutes.
8 Pixel Grid
Using a defined grid during UI design to give a more consistent look and feel throughout the app.
Logo Restyling
Colors
Typography
Icons and buttons
Design System
Creating a collection of reusable components, guided by clear standards, assembled together to build the application.
Onboarding
Checkin Process
Home
Home screen shows latest abstract, bestsellers and a horizontal scroll list of all the abstracts sorted by categories.
Book Details
Users have the opportunity both to read and listen to the key ideas of the best business books.
Reading Screen
Reading screen has a horizontal scrolling between the pages, controlled by a bottom navigation bar. Users have the ability to customize reading and switching to night mode.
In these screens a serif font is used to improve readability and to recall the book appearance.
Search
Troughout the search screen the dropdown panel allows an accurate filtering mode by categories and tags.
Search screen is accessible through the special icon that opens top search bar.
Favourites & Category
You can add a book to your favorites by pressing the bookmark icon on each card. The relative screen presents a vertical list of books that can be ordered using the appropriate menu. The same provision can be found in each category screen.
Progress Screen
Once you start reading an abstract, you have the ability to find it on the progress screen that shows progress of open books.
Profile Screen
Profile screen shows a summary of the active services or if you are a free user it shows the advantages of subscribing.
App store and Google Play Store screens
Advertising Campaigns
After 4books publication a series of advertising messages were created using different multimedia channels with the aim of increasing the number of subscribers.
