Progress of iBook

So I started to actively develop my iBook. I wanted to take a few things into account before I actually started to design each page layout, one of these things being freedom and non-linear navigation, I  felt from my previous research into iBooks that you were forced to follow the authors trail of information and I felt that it left people feeling irritated. So I decided to use a rather messy but once polished effective method of non-linear navigation.

In this screenshot above you can see my final starting navigation design. I wanted to create something that was very simple with no question about how you navigate from chapter to chapter and I think that the simplicity of my design does this well, it leaves no room for confusion and having complicated navigation is one of the worse design offences in my opinion. I originally wanted to go for a Flat UI design approach however after reviewing that this will mostly be a factual book it is key to contain as many factual elements as possible, for this reason I decided to go with a half flat UI and half image design style.

As you can see in each of the thumbnails I chose very high quality pictures, I felt this would not only make the book more entertaining and visually pleasing but also make it more professional.