Customising reading experiences

A backoffice tool that manages the reading experience of the Strips.be application.

Publishing

Reading

Backoffice

Challenge

What was the challenge?

Standaard Uitgeverij, a Belgian publisher of books and comics has launched an app called Strips.be where users can read their favourite Belgian comics on their phone or tablet. We have built the backoffice tool in Retool that manages the reading experience of the application.
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An algorithm in the backend parses comic books and determines where each frame is located on a given page. In general the algorithm does a pretty good job at finding all frames on a page, but in some instances it needed some manual finetuning.

An example of what happens when the algorithm misses the mark on capturing the right panels.

Process

How did we help?

We solved this challenge by building the Playbook Editor. A tool that allows backoffice users to visualise and update panels the algorithm has detected.

It's easy to browse through the comic and see the panels the algorithm has detected on each page.

Adjusting the fit of the panels is straightforward — simply tweak them to better frame your content.

If the narrative should take a new direction, the panels can easily be dragged and dropped in the right place.

Process

How did we help?

We solved this challenge by building the Playbook Editor. A tool that allows backoffice users to visualise and update panels the algorithm has detected.

It's easy to browse through the comic and see the panels the algorithm has detected on each page.

Adjusting the fit of the panels is straightforward — simply tweak them to better frame your content.

If the narrative should take a new direction, the panels can easily be dragged and dropped in the right place.

Solution

What is the result?

We have built a backoffice tool that enables administrative users of the Strips.be application to manage application users, comic books, and their reading experiences

Some of the core features include:

A dashboard that showcases key usage metrics of the application.
A straightforward method for viewing and publishing comic books on the application.
Comprehensive user management capabilities.
An intuitive playbook editor designed to enhance the reading experience of comic books.

"Working with Sixth Generation and Xplore Group has been a pleasure. The collaboration with the team was seamless and the quality of work has set a new standard."

Walter De Roeck – Director IT Standaard Uitgeverij

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