Metronaut for iOS

"Your personal orchestra."

Mobile App in iTunes
Website - antescofo.com


About: Metronaut is an app by Antescofo, a french startup out of Ircam, the largest laboratory dedicated to Music and Technology in Paris, France. They wanted our help to discover opportunities of how they could best use the AI technology they had developed, in a mobile application. When we started they already had a working prototype that we used for user testing.

Challenge: Find an application for their technology to help solo musicians during practice or performance. Conduct user research for audience insights. Design suggestions for an app.

Process: User interviews, experience maps, user personas, user scenarios, user testing, mock ups, and an interactive prototype.



Research

User personas:

We developed 2 clear profiles to identify with use cases for professionals and amateurs.







Stakeholder map:



Interviews: Met and studied target users to better understand regular tendencies, attitudes and goals around music practice. I helped conduct 3 in-person interviews: off-site violin student, off-site bass student, and an in home semi-professioinal cello player.

Key discoveries

1 - End-goals of music practice = Playing concerts and impressing friends.
2 - Challenges of music practice = Time and equipment accessibility
3 - Music practice environments = Mostly home studios
4 - Music practice frequencies = 2x per week to 4hrs per day

User scenarios

Given our 2 main user types we illustrated 4 key scenarios with contrasting win/fail stories:

1 - Solo performance -FAIL
2 - Performance with app -SUCCESS
3 - Solo practice -FAIL
4 - Practice with app -SUCCESS

Experience mapping

After digesting our interviews I sat with the other designers to brainstorm many app feature concepts. We decided to move forward with



User testing

The engineering team had fashioned a basic functioning prototype which allowed us a base-line to conduct 4 different sessions of live user testing in the lab.





Create

Mockups & Interpretation

After a series of pen/paper wireframes I took a stab at V1 mock-ups in Adobe XD.



Prototype


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