(Suggestion) Add feature Categories (New And Popular) and Views in Trove NLA

[ahyar92]

Components

The components (Features) I want to suggest is:
- Categories (New And Popular)
- Views

Proposal Description

Initially, the Trove NLA app was good enough. However, the available features are still a bit boring. Developers still need to do the development again to make this application to be better and interesting again. Therefore, I would like to suggest some features to make the application even more interesting.

Categories (New And Popular)
This feature is a very important feature, because each user will be able to see the list of books, the latest newspaper and also the most popular. And of course with the addition of this feature, will make the application more interesting.

Views
I suggest this feature, so that app users can see the number of searches on books, newspapers, and pictures. The feature also indirectly can provide information to the user how much search done on the book or newspaper.

Below I am attaching Mockup, to show an illustration if the feature is added.

Mockups / Examples

Original View

Below, a great location for feature placement Categories (New And Popular)

Design examples for features Categories (New And Popular)

Below, a great location for feature placement Views

Design examples for features Views

Benefits

The benefits of the 2 above features as follows:

• With the Categories (New And Popular) feature, users can find the latest and most popular collection of Books, Newspapers, and Images. And This is so users can see the best collection of Books, Newspapers and Pictures.

• And with the "Views" feature in the NLA Trove app, the user can see how many Books, Newspapers and pictures that other users have visited. And Indirectly, the user can see by itself how good and popular it is for certain products (Books, Newspapers, Images).

• Overall, with the feature Categories (New And Popular) and Views, will certainly provide a more attractive appearance for the application. And with the features that can be useful for users, of course users will be more interesting to use it.

Conclusion

The above feature is very suitable added, because it will give a very good effect for the application.

[emanuelet]

Hi @ahyar92 ,
first of all I want to thank you so very much for taking the time to submit such a detailed feature request.
I work on this app predominantly on my spare time (with lately has progresivvely dimished) but I do what I can to improve constantly.
Now regarding your feature requests, unfortunately I can’t add those specific features because the app doesn’t have a backend and it relies on the API provided by Trove (http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove/api) to fetch the data that it shows, therefore I am limited by what this api provides.
I have more things that I haven’t added yet such as richer information around the results and some additional filters for the search.

I’ll see to publish the list of those additions that I’m gonna make and I’ll let you know.