FARFARIA: CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND STORIES - APP

December 2013 - December 2015

UI / UX Design

Overview

FarFaria is a children’s books and stories app for iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire Platforms. It was created to help excite kids to read before bedtime. With a curated library of 1,000’s of popular children’s books, kids choose from unlimited children’s educational books, bedtime stories, picture books, audiobooks, nursery rhymes, songs, and more.

My Role

After working as a Graphic Designer from 2012-2013 during FarFaria’s initial launch of the first hundreds of books on the iPad, I became the Lead Designer as FarFaria was expanding to iPhone and Android Mobile. Working with a team of developers, I worked on the UI and UX on the new platforms.

Available in multiple platforms

As Lead Designer, I completed a design overhaul for Android devices and the iPhone. FarFaria was previously only available on iPad.

Home Page

The Home Page was designed to make quick book selections. Featured books and genres were optimized,

FarFaria Map

The Explore page featured a map of FarFaria to encourage discovery through the 11 different genre lands: “Bedtime Bluffs,” “Adventure Island,” “Preschool Playground,” “Fairy Tale Falls,” to name a few.

Cover Page (In-Depth)

Once a book title has been chosen, the cover page appears to with several action buttons: “Read to Me” Feature, “Favorite,” “Share.” At the footer of each cover the byline is noted along with and informative Reading Level Badge that is helpful for parents and teachers.

“Read to Me” Feature

The majority of stories within FarFaria has the text inputted through a CMS to help with our “Read to Me” Feature. Words would be highlighted simultaneously with the voice over audio provided in every book. A small portion of the stories had custom typography per page for visual appeal.

“Search” Feature

The “Search” Feature was expanded to appear in more than one location on the app. The search experience offered user’s history of searches, as well as popular searches.

Pop Ups

Pop ups and alerts maintained a fun and playful experience when experience a paywall or a share pop up.