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  1. Record a melody line.
  2. Change one of the notes in your melody.
  3. Add a harmony line.
  4. Export the song.

Observations

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First design

  • There should be time markings along the screen, probably in increments of five seconds in so, so users can tell how far they are in the song.
  • The "cut track" button that used to be in the menu bar was confusing, and no one figured out what it meant.
  • We needed to work on how best to represent multiple tracks that would play simultaneously, given the limited screen space.
  • People didn't want to tap "main menu" to exit the editing mode, because they were afraid it would discard their changes. We needed either some indication that the app was saving automatically, or an explicit "save" button.

first design:

obvious selection of notes:obvious selection of notes
time marking on track
representation of multiple tracks
"cut track" is confusing
clicked on back to add harmony
feedback for saving / afraid to lose changes
piano mode
piano icon confusing
copy song / save as

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