EdTech & Management · 2024
Helping people find one lesson in 157,000
An Arabic Islamic library with tens of thousands of books, lessons and recitations. Midad never had a content problem. It had a finding problem.
- Sector
- EdTech & Management
- Our role
- UX/UI design and development
- Year
- 2024
Led by Bahaa Hawari, founder of BeCollabs.
- 157,136
- Lessons in the library
- 7,675
- Books catalogued
- 10,500
- Scholars indexed
The challenge
Midad holds more than 157,000 lessons, 7,600 books, 27,800 articles, 1,265 complete mushafs and 10,500 scholars. No menu can hold a list that long. Search does not solve it either, because most visitors do not know the exact title — they know they want a particular reciter, or a scholar they heard once, or a topic. So they arrived, could not find it, and left.
Our approach
We asked people how they actually look for religious material. They gave us three answers, so we built three ways in: by type, by scholar, and by topic. Every page connects to the other two, so a visitor who lands on a recitation can jump to that reciter's other work or to the subject it belongs to. We also reset the typography for long Arabic reading, since people stay on these pages for a while, and fixed the bugs users were already complaining about as part of the same pass rather than afterwards.
The outcome
Three ways into the same library, and a reading experience built for Arabic rather than adapted to it.
Get in touch
Tell us what is stuck
Thirty minutes, no slides needed. Tell us the problem and we will come back with our first read on it.
What happens next
- 1. You pick a time, or just send us the problem.
- 2. We reply within one working day.
- 3. You get our first read on it. No charge, no deck.