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Grade Your Melody

Grade Your Melody is a music educational website that allows users of all ages to participate in music education by having the user interact with music notation graphics and practice writing their melody composition while receiving helpful feedback to improve their music knowledge and skills.

UX Team Members

• Connor Duncan - Created sketches, performed competitive analysis, and did heuristic evaluation. Participated in cognitive walkthroughs and analyzed informal feedback.
• Alexander Leonard - Created sketches, performed competitive analysis, and heuristic evaluation. Created wireframes, and performed cognitive walkthroughs.
• Andrew Ruvinsky - !!!List of Person C's primary contributions!!!
• Nicholas Panaccione - Created sketches, performed competitive analysis, and heuristic evaluation. Participated in cognitive walkthroughs. Designed wireframes for Home Page(s), Melody Editor and Lesson View.

User-Centered Design Artifacts

• Personas and Scenarios
• Sketches and Diagrams
• Wireframes
• Prototype - Coming Soon

Phase I: Analyzing Users, Competitors, and Initial Designs

Executive Summary

• Competitive Analysis focused on traditional music education methods
  • Useful feedback is critical
  • Lessons should be engaging and interesting
  • Very diverse demographics
• Heuristic Evaluation identified room for improvement over traditional methods
  • Traditional music education relies on knowledge of music theory
  • Mistakes are easy to make and difficult to recognize
• Personas and scenarios created to address wide range of age and experience
• Our sketches focus on an efficient design that densely packs useful information and tools

Full phase I report

Phase II: Refining interaction and designing wireframes

Executive Summary For this phase of development we focused on designing wireframes and informing our designs:

• Cognitive Walkthroughs provided key oversights in early sketches
  • Labels necessary to provide insight to users
  • Locking advanced tools is useful for reducing complexity
  • Users need feedback when they edit in the melody editor
• Informal Feedback after a demonstration informed our designs
  • Users want freedom
  • Tutorials should be optional
  • Landing page should direct users to different tools
  • Several insights into note modification
    • Click a note to modify sharp/flat
    • Control + Click for mass edits

Full phase II report

Phase III: Prototypes and User Testing

Executive Summary

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Full phase III report