Open Library Progress

Report

Progress www.openlibrary.hk

Website and mobile ETA : Mid-Septmber

iOS and Android ETA: Mid-October

Basic Function: Books Management, Lend/Borrow logistic, Catelog, Users Community

Additional Function: Internative Map, QR-Code verification, Bar-Code to ISBN

Things we need: Logo, online payment......

Operation Mode: Run as Open Source Community

Source Code will be open to developors shortly after deploy

Open to public after 20000 users.

Hackthon for Innovative Propose: eg.How to build connection up within 10000 users?

Serve as platform for Social Technology Innovation/Social Hacking

Target : Override Facebook

Issues to be discuss: Distance with Facebook:

Give chance for people to create “Second Identity” in Open Library.

Create a breathing space out of the “怨氣” ,“戾氣” of Facebook Community

Settle Name Issue: Open Library

Reason 1 : “Open” Library for “Open Society”

Against the “Close”, “Homogenizated”, “Main Stream” Society

Reason 2 : The Scenario of Library

Expected Mutal respect and Equlity within different ideas

to infulence our society.

Following up with our idea:

“平台期望以促進知識流通的方式，建立和維繫香港的閱讀者社群，增進跨地域、跨階層的人與人之間的理解與信任”

Key Issues on designing

“Social Network Upon books”

User Experience : What shall they see when using the app?

Consider Facebook

First Impression : Something close to their taste

“Random Walking” and “With Purpose”

How to Help Users to Explore the Community? (Books, People, Location)

Organize by Books or by People? Or both?

How to Create Connection between People?

How to Encourage Users to Involve into the Community?

Involve : Lend/Borrow more books, sharing their life, eg. upload photos,

book reviews and comments

How active should users be?

Active involvement, but less than facebook/twitter

Five Modules : Home Page Page Users see when first login

Provide notification, update

information

“Entrance” to other functions

Five Modules : Profile

Contain information of Users

Bookshelf: Manage Books, Lend

and Borrow

Five Modules: Catelog

Five Modules: Books Information of Books

User’s rate, review,

comments

User willing to lend/

want to Borrow

Other information

related to Books and

readers

https://book.douban.com/subject/27064644/

Five Modules : Explore A Interactive Map of HK (Use

google map?)

For user to mark themselves on

(Books, Lends, Activity?)

Explore another dimension of

HK

Five Modules : Explore Trip Advisor Travel Map

Lessons from Lenro, Coachsurfing,

Sparktake

Key Issues on design

Lenro

Lenro:Books

Lenro

Lesson from Lenro A “Dead App” : Low popularity, not much users

Poor Personal Profile

Local Reason

Social Inequality of India

Logistic Reason

Lack of offline effort

Lack of Management and Promotion

Could not build connection between Lenders and Borrowers

Sparktake

Sparktake:Books

Lesson from Sparktake Simple and Straight forward as a marketplace

Maybe a good trading place, but not a Library

Library : share life, thought and ideas with books

Missing element of “Person”

No space to share personal thought

Book arranged messy

Arrange books by upload time only

Bad first impression

Coachsurfing

Coachsurfing: Profile

Coachsurfing:Events and Groups

Coachsurfing

Lesson from Coachsurfing How to consist the element of “Person” with “Books” ?

Dashboard/Home Page is messy

Expect to be a functional app, not a social network