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This design emphasizes an exercise-oriented approach for singers to get better.  Notice that each page contains sketches of two different pages.

With this design, when Anna logs in, she can immediately see a note with her goals, as well as progress bars indicating what her highest scores in each of the exercise categories are.  

Since in this scenario, she wants to practice her solo in "The Sign", she navigates to that piece and is taken to a page with the sheet music and a sidebar listing all of her previous recordings.  She can either opt to have the web app play the music back to her so she can listen to it or make a new recording of her singing.  She can also edit the sheet music and the tempo of the playback.

On the sidebar, she notices that her vocal director has commented on one of her recordings and links her to a specific tone exercise.  Let's say she follows the link!

Once she clicks the link, she is brought to the page with that specific tone exercise, shown to the left.  She can see her last score, as well as a record of what happened during the last game she played.  

Once she feels that she has a good grasp of the exercise, she can click on the "Exercises" button on the menubar (or the back button next to the title of the tone exercise page) to see the general list of exercises.

Analysis:

-Learnability: Generally, the learnability will be good, since the site has a lot of affordances and external consistency.  These aspects include play buttons (for both song playback and recording playback), the record button, drop-down menus, and input fields for the various exercises.  However, for a new user, it may be difficult to internalize the difference between "Exercises" and "Practice", so we may wish to watch our wording there.

-Efficiency: For an experienced user, this interface is not that efficient.  There is no way to search for a particular exercise, and if the user has a lot of songs, the drop-down menu for "Practice" will get very large and unwieldy.

-Safety: Although not shown in the sketches, the user can delete recordings, which is a good safety point in case he or she accidentally pressed Record.  The exercises themselves could potentially have poor safety if all of the exercises shared the same general page layout - the user that does not read the instructions may mistake one exercise for another.

* Storyboard 2 - Social-Oriented Design

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