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Student project: Urørt customised.

March 30, 2009 on 9:10 am | By Jørn | In Design, Student projects | No Comments

In the autumn of 2008 students at AHO conducted a 5 week investigation into NRK Urørt. See more student projects.

Kristin Tobiassen’s starting point was what many users of Urørt have been missing in the existing service: the ability to customise their profile pages. Kristin writes:

Today the users who wants to be more personal and perhaps more different from the other bands, don’t have that many possibilities. You can decide fonts and colors and upload a background picture. When users are trying to find new music they might like, they get almost the same impression from every band. So if the band could be more personal it wouldn’t just give the bands a tool to use, so they can show who they are and what the band represent, it would also be more fun for the listeners to search for new music and easier for the listeners to find bands and music they might like.

Her result was a design tool to lower the threshold and enable the users to be more creative about the profile page design. To communicate how this tool works, Kristin created an extensive slide-show-prototype with a step-by-step walkthrough of how this could work. Note how she also includes how this tool can be misused.