Karaoke App

iOS application allows patrons to create and participate in ad hoc karaoke competitions.

iPhones showing the screen designs for the karaoke competiton app.
iPhone showing the team order screen in the contest queue.
iPhone showing a screen with radio buttons to pick a song.
iPhone showing a screen with radio buttons to nominate a team to be the contest winner.
iPhone showing a screen announcing the team which wins the contest.

Project Stats

  • Type Contest Winner
  • Platform Xamarin
  • Status Published

Project Roles

  • UI Designer
  • 🌟 Star Performer
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Project Goal

Plan an app which met specified contest theme criteria in three hours.

Target Audience

The target audience could be the contest judges (this was for a contest) or the imaginary users.

Persona card for Karina, representing younger karaoke competitors who use the karaoke competition app.
Persona card for Blake, representing older karaoke competitors who use the karaoke competition app.

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.

The app doesn’t require logins or accounts. It will use local device wifi and bluetooth connection to communicate with other users.

Initial Concepts

Sketches were created after ad hoc audience interviews. Wireframes were skipped due to the contest time limit.

Hand sketches for home screen, team name submission screen, and music genre selection screen.
Hand sketches for song selection and winner screen. The sketch for audience voting has been crossed out.

Usability

Ad hoc interviews with audience members were carried out to determine potential problems users might encounter in a real life situation.

Potential usability problems brainstormed with audience members.
Action directives we derived from brainstorming with audience members.

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. It was conceived and designed at Adobe Creative Jam, New Orleans.