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Using my interface first.
iPhone user
Casual composer, doesn't often finish songs

1. Record a song

• Clicks on a bunch a buttons
• Hit record
• "okay alright...." 
• Sings "twinkle twinkle", except with doooooos, looking at it.
• Phone picks up pitches, kind of.

2. Edit

• taps a note. Trying different things on it.
• "So what I wanted to do was split a note in half. I guess that might be part of your phone thing but yeah."
• tries to tap end arrows with no effect
• deletes note
• "I was trying to click note between those notes (a row of 3 min length notes) and then I tried to tap away and then I clicked another note and it was hard to get away because all these things appeared and all I wanted was that note."
• "I tried to play, but I meant play from start." (uses to start)
• "I don't know if to start without a just play from start makes sense. I guess you could use it for record."
• plays back and stops to edit things. Uses dragging left to right a lot. Change pitch very carefully by tapping on note.
• "Is there like a go to next note button?"
• "It's hard to drag the pitch of small notes."
• Notices from red edge that she needs to shorten next note to lengthen this.
• "It's really hard to click small notes."
• "oops. Stoop!" Has hard time finding/hitting stop. Taps everywhere.
• "I was totally editing a note and I pressed play and it jumped to a nother place, what was up with that?" (cursor was in another place. Maybe cursor should follow editing)
• "wait the cursor isn't on my note?"
• doesn't notice you can stroke anywhere in the vertical
• "oh shoot I deleted. Undo. Yeaaah"
• "Darn I want another note. Oh look another note!" Take little extra note and drags it over
• "I really like how you can just drag a note around"
• "It turns out it's really easy to hit the trashcan cuz sometimes you have notes right over the trashcan you wanna hit. Esp if you have a descending line."
• "I think my song gets faster. (as in the lengths get shorter at end.) I really wish I could extend a note and have all notes move over, or have a mass move button, rather than moving them all one at a time."
• "I keep meaning to play from start but it just plays from whereever."
• finishes
• "Yeah! alright."

3. Record another track

• "...I don't know any harmonies to twinkle little star."
• (presses play rather than record again)
• (Singing) "pleeeeease record my song!" 
• After several tries of clicking play, realizes it's not record.
• Realizes record doesn't do playback
• "Awh! I don't get to hear my song now? how am I supposed to harmonize with myself!"
• "Damn I can't click small notes!!"
• "Agh I just dragged my note to the side and it disappeared."
• bug. Various terrible things happen.
• she re-records
• Noise in the octave (she sings one note but it alternates between octaves.
• "I'm not sure how it got those ones"
• "wait can I no longer zoom in?" (she's at max zoom"

4. Export the song

• "Too bad, I'm naming it."
• "the star tried to twiiiiiiiiinkle. done. save. Yeah!"
• settings: "What's this? Oh cool!"
• "Wait how do I get outta here? ahhhh!" (not an android user)
• giggles while playing track in helicopter
• "wait what was I supposed to do now?" (re-instructed)
• "tap and hold for more options."
• chooses export.
• it crashes.

What do you think of this editing interface?

• "I really like how you can just move notes around. The trashcan kept getting in the way. I think it'd be nice to have a next/prev note function instead of playing the whole thing cuz I know where the pitches are sposed to be to hear what's wrong. And it's extremely hard to click small notes, holy shit."

Try Alan's interface

• Katfang tries to click play button to record again, despite already making this mistake and it being disabled.
• "Oh my god. it's different."
• "oops I pressed back instead of check"
• "Oh my god I have to click small notes again. Did I do it? I can't tell!" (arrows covering note, seems to be a problem with early notes)
• "I gave up trying to remember what the right note was while editing. I want to go one note at a time, cuz I don't actually know what note (pitch) I want, but I know the interval, but there's no next note and you have to go out every time."
• Still tries to tap arrows to change note even though she knows it's swipe
• About to use back
• "Oh shoot no. Check."
• "I want to cut out the beginning part, where there are no notes, cuz I'm like what the hell am I doing k I'll start now."
• "I'm still trying to tap these arrows even though I know they don't do anything unless I swipe over them." (shortening and lengthening)
• keeps trying to press back instead of confirm. 
• "Stop stoooop!" tapping everywhere. "Oh stop."
• "Moving notes is bizarre and awkward." (messing with arrows to scoot notes over)
• "Nope": tries to play from wrong place agin.
• (trying to get note lengths right) "One thing that kind of bugs me is that I can't tell how long notes are relative to each other. Like a quarter note or something. Like if one is twice as long as another. I can only tell how long a note is within 5 seconds."
• "Also I have no music sense so I keep having to replay." (loses the note she wants while editing because it plays)
• "what is this note supposed to be??" (tries many times to get pitch)
• "Darn this was the actual note it recorded and that was just a messup note. Darn! Darn! I'm so angry!"

Impressions on this interface

• "My biggest thing was that I couldn't move notes. I just want to take this chunk of notes and be like you move that way! There's this big gap and I don't want it. I didn't randomly delete notes like the other one.
• I had a really hard time remembering the back button vs confirm, I kept clickng back note."
• "This interface especially could have a next and prev note. I dunno if that's good, if that's too many buttons. I kept having to click a note and pressing back and playing and clicking a note and pressing back and playing. You know cuz intervals. This would totally be fixed with a next/prev button."
• "turns out it's really hard to type potter. Oh well he'll just have to be pretty."

Compare interfaces.

• "I liked this (DD's) interface better, because I could move notes and I could move between notes more easily. LIke on the other one I'd have to click the back button, or the save button. But accidentally deleted a bunch of notes, but there's an undo button I guess."
• "I really wish I could add/split notes. On twinkle twinkle all the tones that there are two of them there was only one of them."
• phone crashes after export again.

Could you tell what's disabled?

• She was trying to press disabled buttons often, like play when she wanted record on an empty song.
• "I can't tell what's disabled." (alan's interface) "This one is... better" (DD's)
• (Another person, watching): "My expectation is colored is enabled and non colored is disabled. Looks like Only record is enabled."
• "It might be more reasonable if record were white, itunes"