Recollect: Enabling better learning by making connections

Mobile App, Micro-interactions

I read a lot, but am I really learning? Presented daily with content that's up to date with my interests - reading articles, bookmarking them and then 'link jumping' onto yet another article is a common routine. So I asked myself- 'in this relentless consumption of information, does our knowledge really grow?' While several services vie to continuously deliver us new content, a moment of contemplation is what we are missing. Is there a way that along with findings new things to read, the tech can enable us to reflect on the things that we already know?

Recollect is an app that gathers articles that you have previously read and presents a chosen few related to whatever you are currently reading. You can decide to either give them a quick glance and get back to your current article or take a moment to reflect with the summaries of the previously read articles.

The key posture of recollect is parasitic; meaning a majority of its experience is delivered as it runs 'on top' of other apps. This is to ensure there is minimal friction to the primary experience of reading.

Because this is a content centric app, a majority of my process for this project involved iterating layouts and content for achieving the most appropriate information hierarchies. The other key area was perfecting the micro interactions with Origami through rapid iterations.

The project was carried out as an exercise in micro interactions, Mentored by Christian Palino, Kristina Varshavskaya and Joshua Dickens from the Facebook Design team.

TOOLS

Sketch, Origami