Music for smartwatches
Music for smartwatches
As a UX Design Thesis Student at Spotify I conducted explorative design work for music experiences on smartwatches.
The work layed the foundation for the later design of Spotify on Garmin smartwatches.
As a UX Design Thesis Student at Spotify I conducted explorative design work for music experiences on smartwatches.
The work layed the foundation for the later design of Spotify on Garmin smartwatches.
Problem
How might we design music experiences for the smartwatch?
User Research
I interviewed stakeholders at Spotify and smartwatch users in the U.S. I analysed the data and developed an impact map, personas, user journeys, and user stories.
Designing & Prototyping
I iterated prototyping and user testing 5 times with 20 smartwatch users to explore and to validate hypotheses. Prototyping was made with Axure and web development to enable music interactions on a wrist-mounted Iphone.
Publication
The work was published as a master thesis and can be downloaded as a PDF below:
Designing a User-Centered Music Experience for the Smartwatch
I later on continued with wearables in my Spotify internship, working with Garmin, WearOS, Fitbit and Apple Watch.
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