Context
The interactive music room is a place for users to enjoy and play music and personalize their experience! This product based on the device VR aims to provide users with immersive and brand new music playing and producing experiences. More importantly, this music room is both for music beginners and non-beginners, users can directly jump into it and start playing around !
Duration
03/2024 - 06/2024
Tools
Figma, Miro, Meta Quest 3
My Role
I am a UI/UX designer for this VR project and responsible for all the processes of design. In the early stage, I started with brainstorming the problem that exists in our life. Then, I work with many invited participants in my interview and contextual inquiry in order to define the high-level problem. In the design stage, I collected and analyzed the painpoints from the participants that form the affinity map and user persona. Then I created the workflow and information architecture to prepare for the wireframe. After building the wireframe, I created the final high-fidelity mockup based on all the previous design methods.
Business Goal
To use VR to create an immersive and engaging experience for both music beginner and non-beginners, enhancing their enjoyment towards music.
Research
Stage I: Design Challenges
Stage II: Stakeholders’ Interview
Stage III: Define User Groups & Problems
Research Stage I
Design Challenges
User Types
What are the user groups? Music beginner, music professional?
How to configure the role of these two potential user groups?
How to lead the potential users into the product?
Research Stage II
Stakeholders Interview
I took the fundamental research and user interviews with 6 people who have and have not experienced playing music and studied their current user behaviors.
Interview Visualization
Quotes by Stakeholders
Process
How can music beginners enjoy the music-playing experience?
What makes music non-beginners ‘ playing experiences better?
What tools do both beginners and non-beginners need?
Any competitor in the market?
After conducting an interview to understand the pain points of interviewers, I synthesized 6 types of challenges they have. Here is the distribution of the frequency of music-playing challenges.
The interview has shown there is….
#3 Desired environment and personalized settings
Research Stage III
Define User Groups & Problems
#1 Players prefer practicing at home for privacy
User Persona
Ideation
Crazy 8’s Ideation
Design
Workflow
Information
Information needed for music beginners/non-beginners?
Information needed for practicing and producing music?
#2 Playing challenges: lack of guidance and equipment
Affinity Map
Ideation
Design Goals
Crazy 8’s Ideation
Design Goals
Users who know nothing about music production can all create their own music loops.
Users are able to play the instrument they never tried.
Users could see their progress along with their music learning process.
Users are able to play music with their friends or team members.
Design
Workflow
Information Architecture
Wireframe
Wireframe
Information Architecture
Final Design
A Homepage Provides Daily Recommendations And All The Fun Experience!
Invite Your Friends To Join The Music Journey!
Change The Scene And Accustic Sound By Your Own Choice, Make the Experience Immersive
The Production Feature Allows Anyone Who Doesn’t Know About Music To Successfully Produce
Music beginners can easily produce a music loop just by triggering each midi minor and major chord.
The automated features such as tempo alignment and pitch correction make sure there is no music and technical knowledge needed during the production process.
Create Your New Project Just By Choosing The Different Sound Types!
Have Some Fun And Play Around With Other Virtual Instruments!
Find Your Music Sheet In The Library
Never Played This Instrument Or Music Piece Before? Let The AI Tutor Help You!
Great!
Align The Gesture And Start To Play!
With an AI tutor, the player can get instant feedback and instruction with no time restriction.
Automatically Save Your Progress, Help You To Improve!
Satisfied With Your Work? Upload To The Community!
In the Community section, you can explore and listen to recordings uploaded by other users, providing inspiration and helping you discover the type of music you want to create!