Karaoke App
iOS application allows patrons to create and participate in ad hoc karaoke competitions.
Project Goal
My team had to plan and design an app which met specified contest theme criteria in three hours. The contest theme was “Let’s Do It Again” so we decided to submit an app for karaoke duets. The target audience could be the contest judges (this was for a contest) or the imaginary users.
Target Audience
The audience for the karaoke compeition app, called “Let’s Duet Again” are bar patrons who want to compete as teams of two against other patrons. Oh, it’s not uncommon for these users to experience temporary challenges, such as decreased cognitive capacities. (>I’ll let you guess why.)
Research & Key Challenges
No research was done for this app. We had three hours to concept an app, design it, and present it. Given our time constraints, we used >Lean UX and >Genius Design while keeping >user-centric principles in mind — because the users would be cognitively burdened. The app doesn’t require logins or accounts. It will use local device wifi and bluetooth connection to communicate with other users.
Initial Design Concepts & Wireframes
Hand sketches were created after ad hoc audience interviews. Wireframes were skipped due to the contest time limit.
Usability Testing
Ad hoc interviews with audience members were carried out to determine potential problems users might encounter in a real life situation. The app wouldn’t require logins or accounts as it uses the bar’s wifi connection to communicate with other users of the same app on the local network. The app’s “disposable” nature would preclude the need to create logins or save user information. This results in an easier experience for patrons with less than their full cognitive capacity. Most of us can’t even remember our passwords when we’re not challenged! The app works in conjunction to synchronize all aspects of the competition such as voting, queueing entrants, and loading songs in a local, ad hoc network.
Conclusion
The team designing this app, “The Pun-o-matics,” of which I was a part with Michael Alford, won 1st Place People’s Choice and 2nd Place Professionals’ Choice awards. The app isn’t actually built but I’d love to collaborate with interested parties in actually building it. It was conceived and designed at Adobe Creative Jam, New Orleans.