Prototype photos
Briefing
Our project is called VoiceComposer, and it's intended to let users quickly record a melody they're thinking of onto their smartphone.
Scenario tasks
- Record a melody line.
- Change one of the notes in your melody.
- Add a harmony line.
- Export the song.
Observations
Josh tapped on the layer buttons for a while before Record
used Undo to "change a note"
tried to drag a rectangle on the screen to select notes
should we make tapping on whitespace create new notes?
recorded over layer before figuring out how to add harmony
should make "exit" say "menu" or something?
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
Prototype iteration
- Since users found the top menu bar confusing, we removed one of the buttons and replaced the "Main Menu" button with "Save" and "Exit" buttons.
layers
change-note overlay
save and close buttons