Talking Pages

All books talk. But a good book listens as well. With the application, we bring analog shared reading into the digital world. The application was developed for the purpose of bringing people together to read. In every session, users share part of their life experience with their group and reflect together.

So what is shared reading? During a shared reading session, people from different backgrounds and from different social classes meet to read together. Text passages from books or poems are usually read aloud and then discussed. During the meeting, each participant brings a piece of their lived life with them. Shared Reading helps people to understand each other better and get more empathic. The central part of the application lies in in the reading session:

this is where a new session is started or existing sessions are continued. It also shows popular sessions you can join if you don't want to start your own. Then, the actual exchange takes place in the chat. The application gives users impulses that match the text passage they have read. You can add quotes to the commented passages you have previously stored in your notebook. There, the user can save and organize the marked parts of the text.

Design Process

Understanding the Target Group

In order to effectively analyze the interviews we conducted, we organized and structured the key insights, allowing for a clearer understanding of the most important findings.

Scope of Work

Our mission was to create an intuitive and visually engaging platform.

We carefully curated a selection of book options featuring diverse and visually striking covers. The goal was to create designs that would capture users' interest while seamlessly aligning with the brand's identity. To achieve this, we developed a versatile pattern technique that allows for the creation of unique and engaging covers across a wide range of books and genres.