Music App
Brief/Process
For this project we were tasked with creating a music app from start to finish one that would include one special flow. For mine I included a lyrics weather where the user could listen and go along with the music if they want. We started out with gathering data on competing apps and then conducted interviews with a variety of people to see what their thoughts were on the current ones available on the market as well as determining what would be beneficial to change in our design. We then went through the whole process of creating personas, napkin sketches. Low fidelity wireframes, high fidelity wireframes, the full prototype and then we went back to the same people to have them test out the completed prototype and make changes based off of the analysis.
Interviews
Kevin 25 (food service)
1) What is your favorite music application and what device do you use?
Pandora, on phone
2) How often and what time of day do you use the app?
5-6 hours almost daily, in the morning while I work and in the evening while i exercise and while i clean
3) What’s most appealing about the app?
It's got a wide catalog of songs, i can count on it to have the songs i want, it introduces me to new songs and artists, and has a good user interface
4) What’s the hardest part about using this app?
Activating it, starting the app. Cant access my history
5) Was there anything surprising or unexpected about the app?
Nope
6) What can be done to improve the app?
More music selection, give the ability to see my listening history, analytics of the songs/genres i listen to the most and other things
7) What feature of the app do you use the most?
Queue function (pick albums and line up what you want to in a playlist)
Allan 19 (student)
1) What is your favorite music application and what device do you use?
Spotify
2) How often and what time of day do you use the app?
2-3 hours, afternoon and night
3) What’s most appealing about the app?
Good selection
4) What’s the hardest part about using this app?
Sometimes it freezes and can't change Playlist or skip songs
5) Was there anything surprising or unexpected about the app?
Price for premium
6) What can be done to improve the app?
Make it cheaper
7) What feature of the app do you use the most?
The Playlist function
Rene 26 (massage therapist)
1) What is your favorite music application and what device do you use?
Spotify
2) How often and what time of day do you use the app?
A few hours a day when driving to work and on breaks
3) What’s most appealing about the app?
It has a lot of choices and you can make playlists easily
4) What’s the hardest part about using this app?
When the shuffle feature turns itself back on
5) Was there anything surprising or unexpected about the app?
Not sure, I've been using it for so long I can't remember if anything surprised me
6) What can be done to improve the app?
I'm not sure
7) What feature of the app do you use the most?
I like the playlists and uses them very regularly.
Napkin Sketch
Personas
Low Fidelity Wireframe
Moodboard
Elements
Pre-Testing Wireframe
Data Analysis/User Testing
User Flow Testing
User creates a new account, enters the app, chooses a song to listen to, and adds that song to a playlist.
Questions
1. What did you think about the layout?
2. What do you think about navigating from page to page?
3. Did you find anything confusing or difficult?
4. Is there anything you would like to be implemented differently?
5. What do you think about the experience overall?
Kevin 26
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I think its relatively simple and easy to figure out what things are
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It’s pretty easy, sometimes its a bit difficult to click on the individual buttons though.
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No, everything was self explanatory
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Some of the pages have strange effects on them that are a bit distracting
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I think it was good, pretty easy to use.
Rene 27
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The colors are nice and easy to read
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Good
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Would like to see the back button work on most pages
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Maybe add a way to undo making a playlist
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I liked it and I liked being able to see the lyrics for the song
Allan 19
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It’s fine
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It was fine
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No
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Better colors
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I was fine
Data Analysis
1. What were the demographics of each user you interviewed?
My demographics ranged from 18 to 27 the majority skewed to the latter though
2. What were the main challenges users had?
One of the main problems was being able to click on the buttons because they were too close together
3. What surprised you during the interview regarding user feedback?
How the users reacted to some of the smart animate features on some of the pages and that it was something they didn't like
4. What did you learn from the overall experience and what would you like to improve if you were to continue working on this app?
I would like to focus on making the lyrics page more interactive and possibly change some of the ways people interact with the app
For this part we went back to the original three people we interviewed and got their input on how they felt about other music apps and what they would like to see differently. I was able to go back to my original three people and the first two gave me some good feedback however the third was less than helpful. Overall it seemed like the users had few problems navigating the app and completing the directive. There were a few useful thighs they talked about and that I was able to implement. One other thing I did to make it more useful was get rid of the play button on the song list and just make it so it will take you to the song page that way clicking isn't an issue. As well as adding a bit more padding to specific elements to make it less cluttered.
Updated Wire-frame
