Audio industry professionals tend to juggle various tools for asynchronous collaboration on their working files. We help these users achieve a more seamless asynchronous audio file collaboration experience.
I collaborated closely with the founder, tech lead, and developers. Together, we spearheaded the design and steered the roadmap. I brought the design of our solution from idea to proof-of-concept in high fidelity design mockups.
“Getting all the musical language understood at different levels of technicality between people is a challenge.”
Users were very focused on the way feedback was provided to their audio projects
Users needed ways to write down notes they wanted show to their collaborators
Reference tracks are crucial in the initial stages of an audio project
We identified a consistent need for users to share files remotely to collect feedback. Remaining participants weren't in a place in their projects where they wanted to collect feedback yet, but have an existing desire to do so.
We reprioritized the design to accommodate the space needed for an interface aimed at focused and isolated listening. We went from a single track file, to a track hosting multiple layers/“stem” files.
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Stems are layers of audio that professionals put together to form an arrangement of sound or music.
After conducting a recent cognitive walkthrough with some users on our latest design iteration, we noticed that all of our users struggled to understand what the versions were associated with.
We aligned visual hierarchy and information architecture more by moving the versioning feature.
Our latest iteration of designs are continuing to receive exposure to a pool of our target users. I’m excited to report back more of our findings here soon!
