Wordnik Dicitonary & iOS Development Kit
Experience and interface design for iPhone and iPad dictionary tool
I led design for Plausible Labs as we developed this dictionary tool—soon to be released as an SDK and UI kit for iOS developers. Wordnik'sAPI provides contextually-tunable dictionary data (for example, it returns business-oriented definitions and examples sentences from today’s Wall Street Journal when looking up words from a management book). I designed the dictionary widget for two discrete sets of users: readers on mobile devices and app-developers implementing the tool within e-readers, news magazines, digital textbooks and browsers.
The intuitive dictionary experience draws from print dictionary and web-2.0 conventions. It provides a concise system of visual hierarchy and elegant typography (within a bespoke Objective-C text renderer) to maintain navigability and readability for users, and offer developers the ability to style the tool to compliment their app design.
My UX deliverables included multiple use-cases that articulated increasingly complex implementations of Wordnik's set of modular interactions.
