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Unsure of one of the songs in the playlist, David clicks the song to expand its box and previews it using the play button. Liking what he hears he clicks the thumbs up button to indicate his approval and also clicks the download link to add the song to his collection.
Analysis of Design #1
Learnability - The interface is very simple which lends itself to being very easy to learn for first-time users. Furthermore, the different features and functionalities are highlighted by using layouts and schemes that users will be familiar with. For example, the splash page has a very similar structure to google's home page, which will help users familiar with google's search to easily adapt to searching for events on remote playlist.
Visibility - The interface focuses primarily on the songs by listing them under the description of the event landing page. This highlights the individual songs and specifically their popularity by clearing showing their thumbs up and down in the same column.
Efficiency - This design's efficiency is based primarily on its simplicity. Its design lends itself to being highly efficient in displaying the right information to the user at the right times. For example, each song is displayed in the playlist with the information necessary to identify it and its popularity, and if the user wants to see additional information and options it can be clicked to expand.
Design #2
Our second design pursues a different way of finding parties and displaying the music that is popular on its playlist. Instead of searching for the party name, the user will search for a particular location and a map of local parties will be displayed. The user can then select a party and views its "playlist." The playlist is actually a info-graphic of the genre of music that will be played at the particular party, with a large font-size for a genre suggesting it is more popular. When a user clicks a genre to explore the music, they are "voting on that genre" and it makes the font grow relatively larger than the other genres. They can then vote on particular songs of a genre, which is displayed next to the genre, and also upload their own music for that genre.
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