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Sketch 1

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• Using Dropbox as

• inspiration, this design

• features easy drag and drop of music files onto the interface or direct link input to album
• Asynchronous importing means that users can input album and song details while

Sketch 2

• music is uploading to the system
• Efficiency features like album-level information automatically propagating to tracks speeds up the input process
• Uploads can be previewed by music directors before being added to the playback library
• This design focuses on the critical aspect of uploading music, CMJ reporting and playback library flushing is not included
• This design was the stretch for ultra-efficiency

Sketch 2

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• This design aims to circumvent the tedious e-mail correspondence entirely by providing a separate interface for record labels
• Record labels and artists submit and fill in music details on their own, and albums are automatically uploaded to the system
• The music directors can preview albums awaiting approval, and choose to approve albums to the playback library or reject them
• Checkbox genre filtering allows music directors to only see albums for the genres that they care about
• Similar to Sketch 3, the library interface would show the number of air plays and allow a flush flag to be turned on for each track

Sketch 3

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• This interface mimics iTunes for external consistency and therefore (supposedly) easier learnability
• Importing is done through a separate dialog, once the import has begun the user can go back to using the interface
• Once an import has been completed, a dialog gives the user the option of previewing and accepting music into the library
• The import completion dialog also shows tracks that failed to import and has text boxes for filling out track information
• The user can always exit out of the import completion dialog and the tracks with missing information will go to an unfiled section
• The library incorporates all functionality including number of air plays (to facilitate CMJ reporting) and a flush flag

• This is the second preliminary design sketch that is a bit more uncluttered and gives more space for displaying information
• Users can still drag and drop zip files (scan did not show up clearly but there are letter "Drag and Drop to Add" printed on the background of the interface)
• Two panels at the side display the "Top Played Tracks" for a given week, and a "Search" interface for navigating the library
• Tabs at the top allow the user to create different "sessions", essentially a different view of the library. Each session can have a separate import queue
• Tabs at the side divide the music tracks by genre, since music directors are divided by genre, they hardly concern themselves with other genres
• Albums imported within the current session are shown with "album cover flow" format: album art, genre tags, artist name, album name and the full track listing
• Albums imported from previous sessions are simply displayed in a list format

Sketch 3

• This is the "stretch" design that is designed for tiny screen interfaces, here I have chosen a specific mobile touchscreen interface
• Drag and drop is implausible, so the home screen interface simply asks for a file url
• 4 icons displayed at the bottom which allows the users to navigate to: Library, Imported (list of tracks imported in this session), Playlist (list of songs currently playing on the mobile device), and CMJ List (list of top played tracks for the week)
• Library contains tabbed content by genre, with a button at the side to allow adding the song to the current playlist
• Imported section uses "album cover flow" format
• Playlist shows a list of songs queued for playback on the mobile device, with a button to navigate to the "Now Playing" interface
• Now Playing shows the current song playing along with playback options, volume control, song progress, and song details
• CMJ List interface shows the top played tracks in the current library