Smule – Song Upload Tool — Sruthy Kumar
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The Opportunity
The solution was not design-only as we had to think about what kind of data would be useful to collect in the form of tags. I reframed the problems into:
Generate a finite list of Genre titles that users can search and select from.
Impress upon users through the use of better design and copy, the importance of inputting tags.
Consolidate screens and modify layout to highlight required fields.
What Didn’t Work
One of the concepts I struggled to design for was how could I help our users pick relevant tags to describe the mood or emotion that a song is evocative of? I worked with a domain expert – a music researcher – to understand and explore the different ways in which mood could be construed and categorized. I also consulted the machine-learning team to understand how they use metadata to personalize recommendations. From a user’s perspective, I had two main takeaways:
Tags cannot be captured in a single word
I asked testers to recommend “mood” tags for Britney Spears’ Baby One More Time. I got, Party, High School, 90s, Pop, Teenage, Crush and Girls. Then I exposed them to the song upload tool – generated by the music researcher and machine-learning team – a list of adjectives awaited them. The users tested had some strong feelings about the list:
