I wanted to explore the possibility of connecting leisure activities like watching TV and reading into a single experience. The project is an exploration of the opportunities and challenges in reading, exploring, buying and enjoying books - on a TV.
Solo passion project NOT affiliated with Amazon
Keywords
Product Design, Designing for Smart TVs, Storyboarding, Kindle for TV, Figma, Prototyping, Design Systems
Kindle for FireTV
Reading books on your TV
Key features
Introducing Kindle for FireTV
Explore books
Find your next read on Kindle for FireTV by exploring recommended books by categories like “Books you may like”, “Pulitzer prize winners”, “Because you read...”. You can try books before you buy them by getting a Kindle book sample or buy a book you like and start reading it right away.
Immersive reading with Audible narration
Immerse yourself in your book with companion Audible narration for your Kindle book. Use your TV’s superior sound and screen size to create a unique cinematic reading experience.
Reading menu for books with Audible narration features play, quick rewind and narration speed functions.
The line being narrated is highlighted.
Reading settings
Kindle for FireTV provides a wide range of customizations from font styles, sizes, backgrounds, margins and line spacing. Accessibility features like larger font sizes and support for Open-Dyslexic font make for an inclusive product.
Fine tune your reading experience.
Presets for popular formatting settings.
Research
Opportunities, secondary research and interviews
Kindle ecosystem
Making sense of the product landscape
Ideation
Explorations, storyboards & low-fi
Testing and adapting
Remote-control, optometry and user testing
Design
Design language, prototyping and components
Reflection
What I learnt
Areas to improve