DESIGN OF A MUSIC PLAYER (DASHBOARD OF A TOUR BUS, SMARTWATCH, AND WEB BROWSER)
WHAT IS MUSIC?
Music is the art of producing pleasing or expressive combinations of tones especially with melody, rhythm, and usually harmony. It is also a vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
MOTIVATION:
In the world of today, people find that it soothes the heart when music touches it. And for this reason, we have a lot of applications that produce these sounds and people get them according to their preferences. We looked at different applications in recent times and we found a common ground where we can pitch our tent. We decided to create a music player that is much more simplified for the user’s benefit, using the AUDIOMACK MUSIC PLAYER as a case study.
ABOUT THE PRODUCT:
Introducing the new product “PURPLE TUNEZ” which is a simple, yet fun music player application that helps you navigate through your songs in a much more easy way, without being confused or having so much to deal with before accessing your tunes.
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
According to what we have been able to discover as the issue with existing audiomack music player, which is the jampacked nature of the interface, we were able to simplify our music player application.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES:
Our sole objective for this project is to help users interact and operate their music players with ease whenever they want to peruse their application.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS:
Questions we took into consideration for us to be able to come up with an active application were:
- How is the interface of the application you are currently using?
- What colors would be most appropriate for you as a user of a music player application?
- What would you want to change in your current application?
We used one method to gather information.
- Observation method
- User research and Interview
USER PAIN POINT:
The music interface is too jampacked, making is sometimes impossible to locate songs easily.
CASE STUDY SAMPLES:
EMPATHY MAP:
DESIGN DOCUMENTATION:
We took into consideration the user pain point as seen above and decided on the functions to remove and to add in our application. They include:
The On-boarding screen consisting of the logo, the home page, the discover page, the playlist, the album page.
THEME CHOICE:
Font Choice: Futura pt
Color Scheme: Purple and Black
logo: was designed according to the dominant colour used within the design which also inspired the application name. the logo been the first to pop-up on opening the app is designed using music frequency bars to portray its purpose.
LOW FIDELITY WIREFRAME (LOFI) OF DESKTOP INTERFACE
LOW FIDELITY WIREFRAME (LOFI) OF TOUR BUS INTERFACE
LOW FIDELITY WIREFRAME (LOFI) OF SMART WATCH INTERFACE
HIGH FIDELITY WIREFRAME (HIFI) GALLERY
HIGH FIDELITY WIREFRAME (HIFI) TOUR BUS
HIGH FIDELITY WIREFRAME (HIFI) SMART WATCH GALLERY
CONCLUSION:
It was an amazing experience designing the Music Player across different media, the tour bus, the smartwatch and the web browser.. Doing projects like this make is always very fulfilling and makes one more eager to move forward in the industry. We are so happy for the progress made so far because we have been able to create an application that is so simplified such that the user is always clear on functions and all what we have.