App For Musicians Find New Musician by Takuya Saeki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design Competition Category.
BronzeMobile· 2020
App For Musicians Find New Musician
by Takuya Saeki
Client: smooth and friendly design Tokyo
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Mobile Category
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About App For Musicians Find New Musician
This is a music-focused mobile application that is used to distribute information on concerts, music videos, and artist profiles all in one place. Artists can use the application to attract new fans and promote songs. General users can use the application to meet and discover new music and musicians.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
App For Musicians Find New Musician is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. App For Musicians Find New Musician is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. App For Musicians Find New Musician splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
I think it is everything I have seen and experienced. I try to see and experience only the "good" things.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main content of this application is the various information that the musicians provide. The UI is designed for this purpose, so we were conscious of making it easy to operate while not interfering with the main content.
How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
The entries are independent productions. However, although the actual UI/UX production and development was originally done, it was not made public for one reason or another. That period is about a year and a half. It was filled with the thoughts of the client and other people involved, so we wondered if we could somehow release just the UI. I asked the client and received a response that it would be OK to release it on the Internet, which led to the creation of this work. The production of this work took about one month, since it was so much that we had to add a redesign.
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to integrating concert information, music videos, and artist profiles within App For Musicians Find New Musician earned a Bronze A' Design Award - could you elaborate on how this unified platform addresses the key challenges faced by emerging musicians in today's digital landscape?
First, every musician has his or her own website, but access to that website is likely to be proportional to the musician's visibility. Therefore, the use of social networking sites is essential for musicians who are just starting out to gain recognition from a wider audience. However, social networking sites often take the form of timelines, and it is not easy to find the information you need. The problem is that you have to go through different sites and services to get information about the musicians you are interested in. I think this service solves that problem because it provides a centralized view of the information that musicians want to share and that fans want to know.
The user interface of App For Musicians Find New Musician demonstrates remarkable clarity in navigation - what inspired your decision to prioritize these three specific types of content (concerts, videos, profiles) on the home screen, and how does this arrangement enhance the user experience?
I think the best way for a musician to have a deep relationship with their fans is through the music. We have designed this system so that fans can first get to know the music, experience it firsthand, and find out what kind of background the musician has and what kind of thinking goes into creating the music.
During the nine-month development process of App For Musicians Find New Musician, how did your background in both paper-based graphic design and digital interfaces influence your approach to creating an intuitive mobile experience?
My background in print design taught me how to express balance, rhythm, and visual harmony through static layouts. Later, working on digital interfaces helped me focus more on usability and how people interact with visuals in motion. I always try to blend these two worlds — the tangible sense of print and the interactive nature of digital — to create designs that feel both refined and alive.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- this app can distribute concerts information, music videos, and profile all at once. It also helps to attract guests and promote songs. Users can also enjoy meeting and discovering new musicians through the app.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Target screen size is W375px * H667px (smartphone App for iOS).
- Tags
- ui, ux, user interface, user experience, smartphone app, ios, ui concept, musician
- Production Technology
- I used Adobe Illustrator and Adobe photoshop.
- Design Challenge
- For the user to reach the screen with the desired information with as few transitions as possible.
To determine both the necessary and unnecessary information - Research
- Musicians who are still not well-known use SNS / blogs to share their activities, and this functions as another such a platform.
Within the app, users can see their daily statistics of "Likes," "Shares," and "Follows" to help understand the motivations and reactions of fans as they spread information. - Inspiration
- This UI was in progress in a project. However, for some reason it was not possible to publish it. I created a UI for this app, but I felt sad that everyone could not see it, and I asked the client for confirmation. The client has accepted for publication. So that's a re-creation of that UI.
- Project Duration
- This work took about 9 months
- Operation Flow
- Three types of information, "Concerts information", "Music Videos", and "Artist Profile" are displayed on the Home screen, making it easy to both find artists with information other than songs as well as find artists with similar styles to the user's preferences.
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