- Sheena Kapur - Jamie Pell - Adam Nelson - Jaime Espinoza ((( 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 X Concept Video Here Be Dragons The Design Process How Tuned Works X The Prototype

TASKS 3 representative tasks: Searching for music in a specific genre Following a user Sharing a song

CONCEPT VIDEO

HOW TUNED WORKS

TASK 1: SEARCHING FOR MUSIC Sheena started her exploration of black metal by searching for the genre. Search is an intrinsic part of music discovery, and it complements the auto-suggestion features of Tuned.

TASK 2: FOLLOWING A USER Rather than searching for new music on her own, Sheena followed Jamie to get her music suggestions. Following users provides a source of music suggestions in Tuned.

TASK 3: SHARING A SONG After her introduction to the world of black metal, Sheena discovered a new song on her own and shared it with Jamie. When a Tuned user shares a song, all of the user's followers receive the 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 IDEAS Band Pages

FUTURE ENHANCEMENT IDEAS Upcoming concert/event info

FUTURE ENHANCEMENT IDEAS Purchasing 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.