Solution: Mzikki app and smart watch OS simple and minimalistic design .
My Role: As a UI/UX team of one I was responsible for the :
⁕Research
⁕Ideation
⁕Information Architechture
⁕User Interface and visual design
Through out the project, I incoporated invaluable feedback from my client.
My tools:
✔Sticky notes    ✔Empathy map template
✔moqup template   ✔Pens
✔Adobe XD
✔illustrator
✔User story template

Process

My process employed a design thinking mindset, in which I focused first on learning about the problem space, through the discovery stages of understanding and empathy, then synthesizing what I had learned to define and frame the problem and finally creating the solution.

PHASE 1: LEARNING ABOUT THE PROBLEM

Understand

◆Secondary research

Looking into existing existing music apps on both phones and smart watches to identify recent trends and patterns

◆Comparative analysis

I followed up with a comparative analysis with Spotify and Mdundo.

Empathize

◆Primary research

I moved to primary research after a good understanding of the dating trends where I could learn directly from people through interviews and one on one talks.Prior to setting this up ,I developed some goals:
▹Transition from phone application to smart watch application

Define

◆ Affinity map

I set to work creating an affinity map after synthesizing my research notes
Two themes emerged:
*Focus on artists
*Focus on music on play layout and seamless transition from IOS to smart watch OS

◆ Empathy maps

I created empathy maps to organize information into what people feel.

◆ Persona

Personas were created from the empathy map which included individual goals,motivations,needs ,motivations,frustrations and environment

◆ Problem statement

Finally the synthesis of the information also gave me the opportunity to redefine the problem into a more adressable problem :

PHASE 2: CREATING A SOLUTION

Ideate

◆ How might we...?

I formulated how might we questions to address the core element.
How might we create a simple music application that will have seamless transition into the watch OS

◆ The idea

Mzikki application and smart watch OS simple and minimalistic design

Prototype

◆ User Stories

The first step is building a minimum viable product using User Stories,actions and epics.

◆ Information architecture

I created a general structure using a user flow diagram. The improvised revisions would be later added to high fidelity prototype

◆ Sketching

I sketched out the onboarding and screens needed for the app and turned it into low fidelity prototypes

◆ Wireframes

I developed some low fidelity wireframes for more editing and feedback from my teammate. Any changes would be noted down and changed to better revisions and wireflows

◆ Style Guide

I created a style guide to illustrate the typefaces,colors and various UI elements that were applied in the design system. I wanted to achieve a fun and interactive look to stay relevant.

◆ Mockup

We developed a high fidelity mockup that would be the base of the prototype

Lessons learnt

This project gave me great exposure on working on a full User Experience problem from start to completion. Each step was a learning opportunity and it gave me a learning foundation