The Creation of the Blender

Ben Hill, Kathy King, and Sean McBride

Team Gouda

HFID Fall 2005

Project Goal:

Design a digital music player interface that makes the process of selecting and playing songs as convenient and intuitive as possible.

Personas

Juliet (36)

Stockbroker

Jordan (22)

Graphic design student

Jamie (18)

Liberal arts student

John (25)

MBA student

Primary persona

Juliet (36)

Stockbroker

Jordan (22)

Graphic design student

Jamie (18)

Liberal arts student

John (25)

MBA student

Design goals

Primary user = Jamie Simple, intuitive interface Easily access all forms of music in one place Ability to make mixes of music

Also satisfy the others: Juliet: one-click music-playing John: easily tag songs correctly Jordan: track tastes and hear unusual music

Initial scenarios

Listen to a specific album Listen to background music in a random

order while working Share music with your friends (give and take

music information) Categorize music from scratch

Scenarios

Play a single song Play several particular songs Play a blend of music Let the player select songs for you, based on

your earlier preferences

First paper prototype

First paper prototype

Second paper prototype

Second paper prototype

Second paper prototype

First interactive prototype

Second interactive prototype

Lessons learned

What is different enough? Users are used to certain interface paradigms.

Need to focus the design space. Making people understand a design that is

not fully implemented is a challenge Life is average cases; testing is edge cases

Questions?Ok/Cancel – Just Click It! http://ok-cancel.com/

Changes for the third interactive prototype

Direction of the coming up list “Send selection to” buttons’ appearance and

labels Help overlay to get people to understand

blender more quickly Implement double click