CREATE BEAT
STUDENT WORK - UX Design
Create Beat is an app I created for music to listen to while designing in which playlists are formulated according to the focus level needed for certain design tasks. Many music apps, such as Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora, have sections within their apps for music that helps you to focus, but I didn’t see any that specifically had anything for focus while designing.
There are certain types of music I like to listen to during different phases of design work. Some music helps me to concentrate more while I’m brainstorming. Some music inspires me as I’m drawing or coloring, and some music energizes me as I’m performing tedious tasks, such as masking and compositing images in Photoshop, or photo retouching.
HOW IT WORKS
ONBOARDING
In the app, when you sign up, you can choose and save genres of music and artists that you like, as well as the main tasks you perform, such as brainstorming, drawing, coloring, rendering, etc.
AFTER LOGIN
After signing up, each time you open the app you create a new playlist by choosing the task you’re performing at the time, and level of concentration needed, and it suggests selections based on the genres of music/artists you like.
CHANGE THE MIX
Once a playlist is created, you can "Change The Mix", and change the task, level of focus needed, or genre, and Create Beat will remix a new playlist for you, according to the new changes.
DESIGN PROCESS
MOOD BOARD
QUADRANT EXERCISE
USER FLOW
