Pulse Sensing
Music-based unique avatars
Timeline: January 2022 - April 2022
In today’s digital age, the way we represent ourselves online has begun to be just as important as how we represent ourselves in the real world. Our tastes in music are an important part of that representation and, while algorithms like the ones implemented in Spotify Wrapped can show this to some extent, there is not yet a program that displays these tastes in an interactive visual manner. As such, this project sought to design and implement such a program that simply and effectively allows users to display their musical tastes in an easy-to-digest visual format.
How might we be able to represent people's different tastes in music in an easy to digest visual format?
My example drawings of "Wavatars," our unique music-based avatars.
User Research Summary
- Used IDEO cards to visualize several different styles and trends that have been historically been associated with genres, allowing the team to gauge what may work and what wouldn’t necessarily work as planned.
An example of a potential user for our app. Includes the user's goals, attitudes, and behaviors.
A persona journey map using the example user described in the image above. Features different steps in the user's navigation and emotional journey while progressing through the app.
A diagram depicting a user's progression through various parts of the Wavatar app.