Google Books Partner Center | Research

Summer 2012

Challenge

  • Understand how publishers utilize the platform
  • Redesign the Google Books Partner Center with a focus on flexibility of use

Deliverables

  • Report from formative evaluation with small publishers and self-published authors

Formative Evaluation

Role: I took notes on sessions with publishers, identifying trouble areas in a functional prototype of the Google Books Partner Center. We discussed both how the current site didn't meet their needs, and had them walk through the prototype. I took notes for interviews with both self-published authors and small, independent publishers. 

The Google Books Partner Center as of March 2014

The Google Books Partner Center as of March 2014