Tablet music discovery app – concepts & user-flows

Tablet ap concept - main "artist" grid view

Brief: Conceptualise and a music discovery app for WebOS. Timeline: 1-2 weeks.

Concepts, wireframes and visual design for a Last.fm music discovery app. Currently without a stable home (As of 18 Aug).

Artists screen

Tablet app concept - slideshow playing mode

Tablet app - "Artists listener stats view"

Tablet app - "Cold start" view - a tool to quickly add artists to your library

Wireframes below – the notes have ben removed (so I don’t have to worry about too many typos out in the wild ; ) !

Tablet app - major screens map

Cold start experience – a way for new users to quickly add artists to their library

Exploring artists and recommendations

Exploring artist’s biography, images and top tracks

Playing personalised radio with slide show and listening stats overlay

GUI doc

Initial sketches of the interaction model

Browsing music artists using touch gestures model 1

Browsing music artists using touch gestures model 2

The new Last.fm Festivals app

2012 W3 Awards Silver Winner
Last.fm Festivals app won a 2012 W3 Silver Award for the Music & Audio Mobile App category and a 2012 Mobile WebAward from the Web Marketing Association. You can download the app on iTunes here.

Last.fm Festivals iPhone app

Last.fm Festivals iPhone app

Last.fm Festivals app

My part in the project was to: create a set of wireframes, work out the userflows, provide UI and marketing assets, and follow up with QA and bug testing.

Features

  • Festival compatibility – find the best fesitval for you based on the artists you listen to.
  • Recommended line-up – picks out the artists you listen to most in each festival.
  • Sort by location – people travel for festivals, your ideal festival may be on another continent!
  • My List – plan your summer festival season and save festivals you’re interested in
  • Friends – see all the festivals your friends are attending.

Read more about it on the Last.fm blog

Comments from around the web

With the addition of their new Festivals app, 5 years of Last.fm data just became even more useful for me bit.ly/ettmpZ – @MattHurst

Last.fm Launches Amazing New Festivals App — t.co/egA2wjr #music – @Acecentric

Awesome new #lastfm smartphone application recommends music festivals according to your musical preferences t.co/EcleOJF – @Florianmaganza

Last.fm aims to making choosing which to attend easier with its new Festival application – Mashable

Books With Bite

Books with bite wireframes

Work is progressing on the build of the Books With Bite site, a site for Hachette Publishing to increase engagement with their range of “Supernatural romance ” titles. The site will be based on Joomla to offer the client to manage and update the site.

I’ve designed the site and created the logo, the Joomla build is being handled by Lurex Lounge. The deadline is Halloween!