Spectrum Technology
Summary
Spectrum cancels noise you don't want to hear while preserving the sounds you do want to hear. As the application and headset are used, Spectrum grows and learns from you, improving your customized hearing experiences over time. With headphones and earbuds becoming smarter, people are looking for ways to gain more control over the noise within their surrounding environment.
Design Question
How might we help people cancel noise they don't want to hear while preserving the sounds they do want to hear?
RESEARCH
Competitive Product Analysis
To understand the current market and remove underlying assumptions, I conducted a Competitive Product Analysis covering the following dimensions: Reason for Being, Value-Proposition(s), User Personas, Target Market, Associations, Relationships, and Cost.
I centered my research on the people who would use this product, identifying their goals and context of use, and I drafted the research questions that guided contextual inquiry. What I learned shaped the design decisions that followed and replaced assumptions with evidence.
User Stories
Creating user stories helped to establish scenarios that people might experience. This allowed me to design in context of the people the product was intended for.
Features List
After conducting a competitive product analysis and developing user stories and scenarios, I identified the most important features to include in the product.
Cancel Noise
Each headphone device will be able to cancel and isolate sound wirelessly, with low latency
Auto Reduce Noise
Each headphone device will include GPS tracking, auto-reducing sounds in repeated environments
Multi Track
Application will be able to layer multiple sampled environment to target more than one sound
Monitor sleep
Application will be able to help track and monitor sleep patterns providing informative data
Presets
Application will be able to recommended environment presets based on your current location
Wake Me
Application will allow you to uniquely customize your alarm, with options to wake up to your favorite song
IDEATION
Task Flows & Site Map
Sketches
Outcome - Final Wireframes
I started with basic wireframes. Once I completed all sketches, I moved into creating artboards for each expected feature.
