( ( ( tuned ) ) )

((( Tuned )))- Sheena Kapur- Jamie Pell- Adam Nelson- Jaime Espinoza

THE PROBLEM

Finding good new music is difficult if you don't know what you're looking for.

There are many existing ways to find and share music, but the market is extremely fragmented.

THE SOLUTION

Tuned is a social network for music.

Users share music via links or uploading, and can follow others to receive a feed of music suggestions.

WHERE WE'RE GOING

How Tuned Works

Concept Video

The Design Process

The Prototype

Here Be Dragons

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TASKS

3 representative tasks:

1. Searching for music in a specific genre

2. Following a user

3. Sharing a song

CONCEPT VIDEO

HOW TUNED WORKS

TASK 1: SEARCHING FOR MUSIC

TASK 2: FOLLOWING A USER

TASK 3: SHARING A SONG

THE DESIGN PROCESS

Early sketches of the Tuned interface were heavily focused on playing and organizing music.

EARLY SKETCHES

AFTER CONTEXTUAL INQUIRY

Our contextual inquiry showed us that we needed to focus on what makes Tuned different.

Our next sketches were heavily focused around music sharing.

AFTER TASK ANALYSIS

Once we decided on our final tasks, we created a mobile interface centered around those tasks.

This interface (with only a few modifications) was later used as a lo-fi paper prototype.

LO-FI PROTOTYPE

AFTER USABILITY TESTING

Testing the lo-fi prototype revealed some issues, which we further refined the sketches to resolve.

Most of the changes were to the Upload page.

UPLOAD PAGE MODIFICATIONS

The original Upload page was confusing and did not have many affordances. It was rearranged and made significantly clearer.

THE PROTOTYPE

The current medium-fidelity prototype was built using Axure.

It allows the user to perform all 3 core tasks.

FUTURE ENHANCEMENT IDEASBand Pages

FUTURE ENHANCEMENT IDEASUpcoming concert/event info

FUTURE ENHANCEMENT IDEASPurchasing Music

SUMMARY

Tuned is about sharing music with friends and discovering new music, without having to know what you're looking for.

Our prototype is simple, but demonstrates all of Tuned's core features.