Monday, January 23, 2012

Self-Assessed Que and Aye [Post 3.0]

It's like I'm interviewing myself. El oh el.

Q.What space will this design live in?
A1. Online – think playlist site like Spotify, GrooveShark, Rdio, etc.
A2. In the form of a package that can be sent and received by participants.


Q. What kind of community and level of relationship do these people have?
A1. These people know each other. It's a chain of friends sharing music with one another.
A2. Complete strangers – these people enter what genre they want to share and select a genre they want to listen to and know more about. Users are "hooked up" and send in their created package. It's sent with someone of the same match. (For example: I want a rap mix and I want to know more about jazz. I pick the rap bundle of materials. It gets sent to my house. After I send it back in, finished, I get a package and mix about jazz that another user has created. Once the company gets the finished packages back [before they're switched to different users] they get documented and put up on the site.)

Q. Where is the music harbored?
A1. Online in a saved portfolio. (Boring).
A2. On a flash drive, in a package.
A3. On a compact disk someone sent you.
A4. Have the option to get this finalized product customized in a vinyl record.

Q. What geners will you include (because there's a bajillion sub genres out there).
A1. There's a list of genres. Yeah, it's a lot to work with. Main ones I am interested in include:  Blues, Country, Electronic, Hip-hop & Rap, Pop, Ska, Hardcore, Punk, Classic Rock. (open to suggestions and other genres).

Q. How will the subgenres become recognized?
A1. Hell, I am not sure yet. I was thinking just a small section where users can handwrite and label subgenres.

Q. What will make users want to take part in this design system?
A1. Create an online board where users send in their own creations which can be viewed and rated. Then they become downloaded.
A2. It becomes a creative process. Think of it as an exquisite corpse playlist. When the audience receives a playlist they can add or subtract to the device [a thumb drive seems most appropriate in this situation].
A3. Who doesn't like getting something in the mail?

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