UX consultant at ABBYY Lingvo Live
July 2015 – September 2015 (2.5 months)
ABBYY is a global leader in the development of document recognition, content capture and language-based technologies and solutions that integrate across the entire information lifecycle.
Responsibilities
ABBYY had recently launched a brand new service, Lingvo Live. It extends standard Lingvo Translator with a community of professionals and people who study languages. Lingvo Live is a place where people can discuss and help each other find correct translations of phrases that cannot be found in Lingvo Dictionaries.
At this project I worked together with my partner and friend Nadia Frolova, visual designer. Our goal was to create the version 2.0 of the website, make it better.
We tried to emphasise the ‘Ask Question’ functionality, make it clear. But on the other hand we had to keep a sense of the dictionary. So we decided to bring the most interesting entries, quotes and translations to the main page and the search results page we created as a paper article with white background and good typography.
Home screen
Translate a phrase is a core function on the website. That’s why we have placed the search input on the most visible place.
The main content on the page is daily updated featured articles, such as ‘Word of the day’, ‘Story of the day’, ‘Picture of the day’, ‘Quote of the day’, etc. All these sections are linked to dictionary’s articles.
Sidebar contains recent questions from Community without answers. You can go to Community to answer the question or ask translation.
Tablet & Mobile
| Tablet | Mobile |
|---|---|
The sidebar with secondary content goes down on narrow screens. And all blocks flow from 2 columns to 1 on mobile.
Search Results
Search results is a dictionary article. In fact it is an aggregation from the various dictionaries, including translations of users from Community.
We wanted the user to have a feeling of a paper dictionary when he reads this page.
Community
Community is the second, but not less important than the Dictionary, section of the site. Here, people discuss the subtleties of language, try to overcome the difficulties of translation.
You can browse popular questions, watch them and improve your language level.
Ask Translation
If you don't know a translation of a phrase, if you can't find it in the Dictionary, you can easily ask others to translate it.
Discussion
You can discuss with others how to translate a phrase better. Add your own translation and it will be added to the Dictionary.
If you don’t know how to translate you can just watch the discussion or invite an expert.