For a take home design challenge I did in 2021, I designed a group listening experience for a music streaming service - in this case, it was for Bose. I explored what it would be like to allow users to see music broken down into semantic data and play around with different combinations of music to create discover new songs, artists, and genres suggested from AI.
I started off by doing some contextual reserach on competitors and Bose's existing product suite.
I then explored two questions:
1) How do people listen to music in groups today?
What are the different facets of group listening?
What are people trying to accomplish?
2) How might we enhance their current experience?
How do we bring a feature beyond solving a user's problem and instead bring new value they didn't know they wanted?
After selecting ideas I liked across the Sharing experience like the Airdrop-esq session start, I chose one of the Discover experiences I came up with, Mixing Pot, and fleshed out out that concept. After a couple lofi iterations, I produced the final hifi mocks of an end to end journey to start a Party with other listeners, queue up music together, and even discover new music through shared interests with Mixing Session.
