As part of our Web development Specializations in Holberton we had to redesign the classic spotify desktop application implementing new features to help one of three personas by improving his or her experience on the app.
I worked with Oumaymabou on this project and it was one of the best projects so far. We picked Alex a 28yo Student from Seattle, WA that wanted to focus less on choosing music and more on his studies. We’ve been introduced to Alex Via his story and User Journey Map, He seemed to be annoyed with the amount of time and effort he had to put to find the right playlist. I personally chose Alex because i can relate to his struggle with music being the only thing that could encourage me to focus and make things done.
We decided to add the ability of searching music using hashtags beside of songs, artists or playlists names. Also based on his user journey map Alex was annoyed by the browse page for not directly displaying playlists so we added that. we also went with a simpler design that we felt is going to make Alex’s experience less stressful.
And since our preferences are different we decided to make the application more customizable we added a feature of choosing a dark or light theme.
In this article we’ll browse the three main sections of the app “ Home page, Browse and Radio”
1- Home Page:
Our Homepage consists mainly of what other users are enjoying for a better music suggestion.
2- Browse:
by default browse would list playlists based on what the user previously listen to. However when searching for a hashtag it’ll only display playlists with that certain vibe so the user won’t have to spend time looking for the perfect playlist.
3 - Radio:
Radio is another way to find new music, like normal radios the feature radio consist of different stations that the user could pick music from and save it to his or her playlist.
And finally we wanted to share with you our UX study case
