| Logging in
Each music director has their own account so that starting views are pre-populated with the albums that they've recently uploaded or approved. Furthermore, things like CMJ reporting data can be pre-filtered to the genres which they each deal with.
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| My Uploads
The starting screen after logging in. Approved and unapproved albums are listed on the left hand-side. In the prototyping stage there was some contention between efficiency and learnability/safety. In particular, a more spread-sheet like design for fast input of details and approval versus a more visual view with more whitespace. During the paper prototyping testing stage, there was some inconclusiveness as to the preferences of our user population, but this was resolved as the best way to move forward.
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| My Uploads: Dragging Files
A gray lay-over appears covering the entire screen when files are dragged over the interface. This was decided on during the paper prototyping stage as a clear way to inform the user that they can drag and drop anywhere, and not just the location that says "Drag files here to upload". It was a design decision to make dragging and dropping the only way to upload (as opposed to copy/pasting links or using a button) for simplicity.
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| My Uploads: Dropped Files
A screen appears informing the user of how files will be uploaded, as well as additional affordances for file manipulation within this dialog.
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| *My Uploads: Upload Progress* Progress
A progress bar shows how close each upload is to completion. The pause buttons allow the user to pause the upload. It was decided after paper prototyping that this would be convenient since users should always be able to stop an upload. Additional, album details cannot be edited during the upload stage, this was decided for simplicity after paper prototyping since allowing detail editing would complicate auto-detection of details from the music files themselves (e.g. if the user is currently editing album name, and we find the album name from the mp3). This is a trade-off of efficiency for safety and simplicity.
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 | My Uploads: Uploaded
In most cases (like this one) details can be taken directly from the data found inside the music files, such as the album name, artist name, release date, record label and (sometimes, but more rarely) the cover art.
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 | My Uploads: Deleting Album
This was a major change we made after user testing during the prototype stage. Originally, a trash bin appeared in the upper right corner of the album detail pane, but it appeared out of the locus of attention such that users failed to notice it. When they did notice, they tried to drag albums onto the trash bin (instead of clicking directly on the trash bin). We decided to instead create two buttons on each album with clear color coding for Approval and Deletion. Deleting an album requires a dialog confirmation for safety. |
| My Uploads: Editing Album Details
Clicking
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| v2.0 of our merged implementation
Notice the pause button by each upload progress bar, the clear approve/delete buttons for the album (and the removal of the trash bin icon previously in the top right corner), and the re-wording on the upper left tabs for clarity. Changes not seen include a screen hover on dragging files over the interface (an entire gray-out screen blankets the screen and says "upload"), a highlight on hovering over any editable fields (including the tracks, which then allow editing of artists on individual tracks), and other minor changes. Other forthcoming changes include being able to delete single tracks (also using a hover over track affordance) and a clear visual cue that uploading albums can be clicked on to see specific album information.
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| A view of the testing session on Monday March 18th.
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| v2.0 of reporting interface
Notice the Piazza-like tagging for genre filtering (allowing flexible genre additions as well as multi-selection filtering), release date range filter, and additional playback count columns (for easy sorting between commonly used date ranges). Note that there were several transparencies made for both versions of the reporting interface to reflect changes in filtering and when clicking on one of the playback count headers (which sorts by play count in descending order).
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| A view of the testing session on Monday March 18th.
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| A view of the testing session on Monday March 18th.
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| A view of the testing session on Monday March 18th.
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| A view of the testing session on Monday March 18th.
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| A view of the testing session on Monday March 18th.
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