ABOUT

Learn Discovery is a mobile app for iOS to visualize the mind-map of English Wikipedia.
The objective is to speed up learning and engage in knowledge discovery.
The core feature is the ability to overview the context of a topic and grasp what a knowledge area is about, visually.

Awarded for best user interface in April, VS SalesForce and Nike.

Approach.
1. Benchmark with mobile app adopting innovative interfaces in knowledge discovery (Discovr, Wikilinks, Wikiweb)
Analysis of business models and monetization.
Analysis of interaction design.
2. Development of algorithm to contextualize information
Benchmark with Google Knowledge Graph
Architecture design for data processing and client-side representation
3. UX
Pre-totype of UI
Prototype of demo displaying app logic
Color psychology for adopting color palette
Quantitative evaluation of readable information in using connected-graphs
Design of information interaction
A/B testing and iteration over network types and look and feel of core components
A/B testing to identify value proposition
UI layout
Icon vector design using golden ratio rule
Symbology using key concepts:"Atlas", "Atlas of Knowledge", "Human knowledge" as a metafore of global common good at hand of each person
Requirements for responsiveness of gestures
Terms for outsourcing software development
Management of outsourced software house
4. Visual assets for marketing
Development of web-site to expose content generated by app users
Production of audio visual assets for social pages
Storytelling: Discover, Wonder, Create to narrate the discovery of new knowledge, the a-ha experience, the creation of knowledge maps in study and learning process
Concept and Execution of artworks : Discovery, Wonder, Create to use in media campaign:
- Discover shows an artwork obtained from a coarse-grained connected network from mindmap of wikipedia (Python + Photoshop)
- Wonder shows collage of creative commons thumbnails obtained from content generated with the client itself; collage has been automated with python script; composite and chroma adjustment in Lightroom finalized in Photoshop
- Create shows an artwork to summarize the concept of orienting with maps (Photoshop)