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Healing your heart
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PROJECT
Whale Grace Music App
DURATION
12 Weeks
July 2018 - Oct 2018
ROLE
UX/UI Design, Research , Prototyping
Skill Involved : Journey Mapping, Mockups, Wire Framing, Branding
TOOLS
Sketch, Adobe Photoshop CC
The Whale Grace Music software was designed for people who want to experience the basic concept of Music Theory and make good use of it. It contains recommended songs, radio channel, feeling function and the community function.
This application aims at creating a healing environment for the users, and elevating music-listening experience to a therapy session which induces self-discovering, meditating and healing. Furthermore, this app has socialization functions as users can find people who have the same interest or with similar life philosophy in the real world, and help connect user groups by enabling online communications with each other.
What Is The Problem?
Nowadays, numerous people, who suffer from stress produced by working environment or other worldly matters, are trapped in a psychologically-exhausting situation. However, the majority of existing music applications on the market only focus on the function of playing specific songs and albums, but rarely touch the realm of using music as an effective tool of therapy to help people relieve stress.
Therefore , It is essential to explore the type of music that can match their mood, in the meantime utilize music as a tool to make new friends and communicate with each other within a music community containing people with the same type of interests.
User Research
Methodology
In order to use music as a trigger to stimulate people’s nerve and provide them with the type of emotional impact they want to experience, I use high technology to study people’s preference and help to adjust the information I provide them with in order to achieve the optimal user experience with accuracy and high-quality music.
Questionaire
To get better idea of the market, based on the project problems, I used WHEN, WHERE, WHO and WHY based on 5W2H to design the online questionaire to target the user group for the purposes of survey and statistical study.
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Personas
Whale Grace Music is targetting user around age of 18-80 old, provide them with a way to discover their true self through music, emerge in the world of melody, and let their heart and mind heal peacefully while exploring into their inner self, so I created three personas to understand their needs and goals better.
Through the task analysis and user flow I made this map to clarify the main features.
Function Defining
As for specific functions, the three most important sections are Discover, My Music, Community and Me.
Wireframe Sketch
I transferred the paper sketch edition prototypes to a digital one(low-fi) to better interact with users, which also assist to sort out the most valuable pages and build a smooth user flow for the APP.
The main purpose of doing a low-fi prototype test is to verify the smoothness of the user flow.
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Final Prototypes
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Style Guide
To maintain consistency throughout the entire platform, I established a design system that would guide us with the visual treatment for the interfaces.
Alternatively, here's a fancy sheet of paper.
Résumé
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