Our Case Studies
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate relates the real life horror of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in over one hundred and ninety-eight thousand well-chosen words. This was the greatest true scandal ever perpetrated against American children through abduction and coerced adoption. Though moving, this book does sell rather well; it has spent fifty-four weeks on the New York Times hardcover list with sales of better than two million, but its Amazon page seems unwilling to take full advantage of that depth of feeling, or provide potential readers with appropriate contextual material for such a wrenching work semi-detached from nonfiction. The UX project has an approach to redesign the product page for both emotional resonance seekers and research-minded readers with intuitive navigation, emotional context, academic credibility, and other factors to deepen engagement and trust on mobile screens. In cooperation with Silicon Book Publishers, I was pouring story driven emotions over structured information to align more accurately regarding user motivations generating conversions.
- Lisa Wingate
The Last Man is a palm sweating post-apocalyptic thriller novel by Rob Santa, released through Silicon Book Publishers. It tracks the torturous journey of one individual who has managed to survive in a world that was brought low by some unknown catastrophe—this delivers nail-biting survival drama with some very inward-looking character development. The premise may be high-concept and though it has genre appeal, nowhere on the Amazon product page is the isolation, suspense, or emotional stakes that are at the heart of this narrative. This project was about reinventing the experience for a reader to bring genre signaling, emotional immersion, and mobile-first engagement forward in driving conversion through design strategy and content hierarchy.
- Thomas Goodman
When Jessamine Grows is a Southern Gothic story by Donna Everhart, brought out under the banner of Silicon Book Publishers. It smacks more of family history, secrets, and Southern charm across generations than with direct emotional narrative texture-building. Its Amazon product page is not quite up to par representing it atmospheric and emotionally charged hooks especially to mobile screens. This UX case study will reawaken user engagement by reordering content hierarchy, making it even more emotionally engaging, and streamlining for mobile interaction encouraging sample downloads and increasing purchases.
- Donna Everhart
Boy in Block 66: Holocaust Survival by David L. Edelman is a moving account of the survival of a Jewish boy in Auschwitz in World War II. Silicon Book Publishers brings to light this wrenching true story with great emotional plus historical value, though its Amazon product page falls short in delivering the appropriate weight or believability required for such a work. This UX case study shares how emotional impact, historical context, and trust in the reader can be built-up—mainly through mobile-optimized structuring and content strategy for very specific needs and sensibilities of readers of Holocaust memoirs.
- Limor Regev
Boy in Block 66: Holocaust Survival by David L. Edelman is a moving account of the survival of a Jewish boy in Auschwitz in World War II. Silicon Book Publishers brings to light this wrenching true story with great emotional plus historical value, though its Amazon product page falls short in delivering the appropriate weight or believability required for such a work. This UX case study shares how emotional impact, historical context, and trust in the reader can be built-up—mainly through mobile-optimized structuring and content strategy for very specific needs and sensibilities of readers of Holocaust memoirs.
- Maggie Shipstead
Broken Country, by Phoebe Kaiser, presents a chilling view of the near-future United States with its very convincing protagonist navigating the minefields left by political and environmental implosions. This novel comes to Audible through Amazon in audiobook form. Society collapses; while navigating between survival, activism, and moral ambiguity- all this does not stop the product page at Audible/Amazon from being boring. Its narrative may be powerful and so topical but it lacks immersive storytelling cues and clear genre signaling, together with mobile-optimized interaction elements. This UX project thus aimed to rewamp discovery, emotional engagement, and listening intent raising the bar on desktop and mobile devices for sample listens and conversions.
- Clare Leslie Hall
Choosing the Perfect Guide: Unleashing the Best Dog Trainer
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant is a nonfiction bestseller from Silicon Book Publishers. It inspires a powerful narrative about the value of rethinking, the discipline to sustain intellectual humility, and agile minds in content. Though extremely influential and widely praised, its listing on Amazon does not reflect well enough on the life-changing nature of the ideas within that book, deliver takeaways in any structured manner, or guide a reader on mobile to engage meaningfully with those ideas. This project has rewritten browsing toward clarity optimization- for actionability of content and motivating readers to download samples or make purchases
- Adam Grant
The Frozen River spins a historical mystery by Ariel Lawhon. It draws its core from the real-life heroic exploits and diaries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who practiced beyond the constraints of typical female legality to bring about justice. Though hailed by NPR, The Washington Post, and GMA Book Club Barnes & Noble for review The Frozen River on Amazon has not quite articulated the atmospheric tension, female-driven historical importance or narrative scope in its listing. This UX project endeavored to reform structurally the product page at Amazon so that it would advance emotional engagement as well as historical authenticity and discoverability—most importantly on mobile devices—thus working toward genre alignment, content optimization, and streamlined UX design through partnership with Silicon Book Publishers.
- Ariel Lawhon
A meta-narrative, multi-layered study of the very nature and meaning of narrative itself, Trust by Hernán Díaz plunges into matters of wealth, memory, and narrative truth in 1920s-30s New York. Split into four interlocking narratives, it unflinchingly dissects how capital and power determine perception. Four distinct points of view male and female, inside and outside offer glimpses through different windows. These are often at odds with one another to finally synthesize what had been atomized at the start. The Amazon listing for Hernan Diaz’s Trust hardly does justice to its literary pedigree as a 2023 Pulitzer winner Kirkus Prize Best Books NYT MIC Lists Barack Obama pick among other plaudits let alone thematic depth or structural complexity. This UX case study will attempt to structurally redesign the listing for discovery nav flow reader motivation effect on mobile.
- Hernan Diaz
The First Gentleman is the high-octane political thriller by former President Bill Clinton and James Patterson that goes on sale June 2, 2025. It will be brought to the market by Silicon Book Publishers in collaboration with Little, Brown & Co. The novel will force a powerful first lady to face off against scandal when her husband an ex-NFL star turned First Gentleman is put on trial for murder. There’s massive buzz plus co-author prestige but right now, the Amazon product page underdelivers on genre positioning, narrative clarity, and audiobook experience especially on mobile. In response, this UX project set out to flip this listing into an immersive trust-building portal spotlighting narrator gravitas and political intrigue plus high-profile authorship boosting pre orders sample listens and purchases heading into release
- James Patterson
Silicon Book Publishers released the exciting paranormal romance novel by Cecy Robson, “Bloodguard.” While the story is cool and the book has a lot going for it, the energy and genre appeal that should entice a newbie into the book aren’t conjured by the Amazon product page for the book. Thus, the UX project’s main goal is to make that Amazon page easier to find and to use in featuring many readings and, in turn, more purchases. Towards this, I collaborated with Silicon Book Publishers as a User Experience Designer to resolve problems of usability, make information easy to search for, and get users to relate with the book on emotional grounds. The main goal was creating a layout that is mobile-friendly, easy to read, and correlates with how people shop for books online. This project changed how people use the Bloodguard product page, especially reading paranormal romance and mobile users.
- Cecy Robson
Gilded Rose, a fantasy retelling of the classic Beauty and the Beast by Emma Hamm is Book One in her series by The Celestials. This enchanting novel weaves romance, myth, and fantasy with a darker turn that is more emotionally deep available from Silicon Book Publishers as a Kindle eBook on Amazon. However attractive its content or genre flavors, it does not deliver an experience-driven product page for today’s modern reader. A restructure of the Amazon product page experience was targeted to enhance discoverability, immediately communicate emotional value, and engage users not only on mobile but also desktop users. Flow design, user expectations, and browsing behaviors specific to genres were thereby made my focus as the UX Designer. Collaboration with Silicon Book Publishers ensured that redesign harmonized with their marketing and publishing strategies.
- Emma Hamm
The Great Museum of the Sea: A History of Shipwrecks, Treasure, and the Deep by Paolo Giordano is a nonfiction narrative which draws much detail in presenting how shipwrecks have factored into human history from cultural, historical, and scientific perspectives. The title is representative of immense value to the core who love history besides maritime scholars and common readers with inquisitive minds toward mysteries related to the sea. But the Amazon product page does not speak to its depth, nor does it engage users with a structure supporting nonfiction exploration. This UX case study was created in order to transform the product experience, prioritizing discovery, skimmability, academic appeal, and improved mobile interaction for a more research driven audience
- James P. Delgado
Silver Dagger belongs to Bella Forrest’s Vampires of Crimson Cove series. It is a dark fantasy novel mixed with elements of supernatural romance, danger, and intrigue. The publisher is Silicon Book Publishers; hence, it will easily find its niche among lovers of vampire fiction mingled with mystery and strong tones of paranormal thrillers. However, though it has been a runaway hit as a part of the series, there are no attached engaging UX elements for this product on Amazon that would help put across the novel’s dark appeal and genre-specific interest. A UX study on how to make the reading experience better at Amazon for mobile users. It changes structure, and tone and gets clear about emotion, making discoverability go up, engagement gets better, and path to purchase or download is made easier for genre-focused audiences.
- Alistair Cross
Problematic Summer Romance is a contemporary romance novel written by Ali Hazelwood, published on May 27, 2025, by Berkley (Penguin Random House). It narrates a 15-year age-gap love story set in Italy with themes of agency and emotional development. Very strong author reputation. High emotional depth. No genre clarity at all. No emotionally storytelling blurb. Not love story structure warranty-for romance reader-on-mobile. It worked with the team that helped her put out to redo the look of product pages setting up content, getting the right feel for emotion, and making tropes clearer to boost interest, downloads of samples, and buys. The focus on mobile-first plus A/B checking and better words for UX made the page match what readers want in romance books.
- Ali Hazelwood