Digital premium content from the biggest law book publisher in Romania.

Online library with over 100,000 books, research papers, and articles

Edtech
Web
Romania

Project Overview

Biblioteca Hamangiu is a cutting-edge digital library designed to empower legal professionals with easy access to premium legal content. Users can efficiently search through an extensive collection of law books, articles, and magazines, ensuring they find the most relevant information quickly. Biblioteca Hamangiu provides a seamless and interactive experience, enhancing legal research and study.

  • Advanced Search Functionality: Search for specific information within the contents of books, articles, and magazines, as well as by title, author, and year of publication. This comprehensive search capability ensures that users can pinpoint the exact information they need with ease.
  • Interactive e-book reader: Open and read through legal publications. Users can search within the documents, and highlight important sections, making it a powerful tool for in-depth legal research.
  • Adaptive Subscription Plans: Flexible subscription plans tailored to meet the diverse needs of its users. Whether they require access to specific publications or the entire library, users can choose a plan that best suits their professional requirements and budget.
  • Context Highlight and Bookmarks: Highlight key paragraphs and save bookmarks to quickly reference important sections, streamlining users’ study and research processes.

Context

For the past 15 years, Editura Hamangiu has been the leading publisher of law books and legal materials in Romania. With the digitization process present everywhere and the ubiquitous use of laptops and smartphones, Editura Hamangiu needed to act fast to keep the top spot. Recognizing the importance of digital accessibility, Editura Hamangiu designed and together with Atta Systems created and launched Biblioteca Hamangiu, a digital library that makes their extensive collection available online.

Impact

Impact

100,000+

searchable publications

Romania, EU

target market

5,000+

Monthly Active Users

Challenges

  • Search Functionality Optimization: Fine-tuning the search algorithms to deliver precise and relevant results from a vast repository of legal publications. We implemented advanced search features that allow users to search by title, author, year of publication, and specific content within books, articles, and magazines. 
  • Interactive User Experience: Incorporates interactive tools to enrich user engagement and enhance usability, such as context highlighting used to mark an emphasize important sections within legal texts and bookmarking specific pages or publications facilitating efficient research
  • Subscription Customization: Developing tailored subscription plans for Biblioteca Hamangiu was a meticulous process, ensuring legal professionals could access the precise amount of content they needed. Users choose from flexible options, granting access to specific publications, comprehensive libraries, or specialized content categories.
  • Content Security: Ensuring robust security measures to protect copyrighted legal publications from unauthorized access and piracy. We implemented stringent security protocols to safeguard content within the platform, preventing unauthorized downloads and ensuring compliance with legal copyright regulations.

Solution

In transforming Editura Hamangiu's digital presence, our focus was on delivering a secure and efficient platform tailored for legal professionals. Understanding the critical need for accessibility and usability, we ensured their extensive content library was seamlessly integrated into a robust web platform. Biblioteca Hamangiu became a comprehensive digital library tailored for legal professionals. Users can easily search through an extensive collection of law books, articles, and magazines by title, author, year, or specific content, enhancing their research and study experience.

Extensive search function

Biblioteca Hamangiu offers an advanced search feature tailored for legal professionals. This powerful tool enables users to efficiently explore extensive law books, articles, and magazines by title, author, year of publication, and specific content. The integration of Elasticsearch ensures swift access to precise legal information, enhancing research capabilities with robust search functionalities.

E-book Reader

Biblioteca Hamangiu includes a sophisticated e-book reader designed to meet the needs of legal professionals. This feature allows users to access and read law books, articles, and magazines seamlessly within the platform. The reader supports intuitive navigation, annotations, and bookmarking, enhancing the user experience for comprehensive legal research and study.

Admin Panel and Security Controls

Biblioteca Hamangiu features an integrated admin panel equipped with robust security controls to safeguard copyrighted legal publications. Administrators can efficiently manage user access permissions, monitor usage analytics, and configure security settings through this centralized platform. This ensures compliance with industry standards, protects sensitive legal content, and enhances overall platform security while facilitating seamless management of administrative tasks.

Extensive search function

Biblioteca Hamangiu offers an advanced search feature tailored for legal professionals. This powerful tool enables users to efficiently explore extensive law books, articles, and magazines by title, author, year of publication, and specific content. The integration of Elasticsearch ensures swift access to precise legal information, enhancing research capabilities with robust search functionalities.

E-book Reader

Biblioteca Hamangiu includes a sophisticated e-book reader designed to meet the needs of legal professionals. This feature allows users to access and read law books, articles, and magazines seamlessly within the platform. The reader supports intuitive navigation, annotations, and bookmarking, enhancing the user experience for comprehensive legal research and study.

Admin Panel and Security Controls

Biblioteca Hamangiu features an integrated admin panel equipped with robust security controls to safeguard copyrighted legal publications. Administrators can efficiently manage user access permissions, monitor usage analytics, and configure security settings through this centralized platform. This ensures compliance with industry standards, protects sensitive legal content, and enhances overall platform security while facilitating seamless management of administrative tasks.

User Flows

For each flow in Biblioteca Hamangiu, we develop user flow diagrams just like this one to help us understand what the optimal user journey looks like.

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Design System

The Biblioteca Hamangiu Design System provides a unified component base for both designers and developers to ensure consistency throughout all products.

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Impact

Services

Product Design

User Research and Competitive Analysis
We began by conducting extensive user interviews and competitive analysis to gain deep insights into user preferences and industry benchmarks. This foundational research guided every aspect of our design and development process.

UI & UX Design

- User-Centric Approach: Our design philosophy revolves around creating intuitive, user-centered interfaces that prioritize user engagement and satisfaction.

- Wireframes and Prototypes: We crafted detailed wireframes and interactive prototypes to visualize and refine design concepts, ensuring optimal usability and functionality before implementation.

- Stakeholder Collaboration: Through collaborative stakeholder interviews, we aligned design objectives with overarching business goals, ensuring our solutions meet both user needs and strategic objectives.

- User-Centric Research: We consistently conducted thorough research and collected valuable user data at Biblioteca Hamangiu to optimize engagement strategies. This iterative approach enabled us to ensure a highly engaging and effective user experience.

Engineering (Software Dev, AI) & QA

Web development
- React for web development
- Redux and Recoil to manage the application’s state
- React Query to cache endpoint responses, providing fast access to frequently used resources
- Material UI, Tailwin, and styled-components to style the React components
- Docker for containerization

Backend development
- Node.js with Koa for the backend logic. This was a fast and lightweight setup optimized for the limited resources that were provided.
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Google Firestore as our storage solutions, each used at what they excel at to match the different kinds of our data.
- ElasticSearch as our search engine to provide fast and customizable searches to our users.
- RabbitMQ as our message-broker to communicate with the ERP and keep the systems constantly synced.

Infrastructure (DevOps)

- Client in-house servers as our machines for hosting the system and serving the traffic

- Docker for containerization and GitHub Actions for ensuring a stable and robust deployment mechanism.

QA

- New Relic to monitor errors, detect usage anomalies, and observe performance bottlenecks.- Firebase Analytics to view and analyze user behavior

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