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Audulus and Samplr are two sound production apps with which I’ve increasingly spent time lately. Audulus presents an interactive, modular—or patcher—sound synthesis environment that recalls classic analogue sound synthesis techniques and methods. I absolutely love the interface as it lends itself to both composition and performance. The latter app is unlike anything else I’ve seen presented on mobile; it recalls only a few sampler patches that I’ve seen utilized with Max and Ableton Live environments. Like Audulus, Samplr features an intuitive, user-friendly and deeply engaging interface. As such, it also lends itself to both composition and performance.

Mobile Media | Hot or Not (Apple TV!!!)

This week in Mobile Design we bring you Apple TV!!!!

Now I have my misgivings about Apple TV overall – in terms of its role as a home media center compared to other solutions – but I’m super excited about this project.

Designing for TV is a brand-new experience for me and very very different out of the box than designing for iOS.

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Food Story( tvOS)

Hey everyone, this my wireframes for Food Story (tvOS).

See my wireframes here.

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This is an update for the paper prototype.

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User insights:

  1. The users and I have discussions about “feed”,”discover” and “my favorities”. They all have similar views. Although their functions are clearly different and their scenarios are different, I can see confusion from users’ eyes. After carefully thinking about the scenarios and the features of the tvOS, I combined the “feed” and the “discover” together.
  2.  One user mentioned that she preferred to add to her favorites at the restaurant view instead of the story view. And she had a very good reason that she paid more attention on the restaurant than the story. This conversation reveals another type of the users who focus more on the the restaurant. Although the platform is about stories, it is also very important to provide tools for people to add the restaurant into their folders, which actually fit the scenarios.
  3. One of the users felt upset about the locked social functions. For the recent experience with apple TV, which it is still very difficult to type on, social functions are less necessary.