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AI PRODUCT DESIGN • MOBILE APP CONCEPT • BEHAVIORAL DESIGN
Atelier: Your Daily Studio
Designing an AI-powered daily art practice app for visual artists. Atelier is not a content generator, but rather a studio companion. It provides intentional prompts, medium-aware critique, adaptive difficulty, and longitudinal growth tracking, all delivered with the restraint and clarity of a skilled mentor.
ROLE
Product Designer & System Architect
TYPE
Concept | Side Project
More important than the market size is who listens to audiobooks and how they listen to them. Audiobooks are most popular with 30-49 year olds and college educated people. The overwhelming majority of users listen while commuting.
THE CHALLENGE
I researched a range of apps from those with similar content and structure (Audible) to those with different content but structural similarities (Evernote).
PRECEDENT RESEARCH
Content & Site Map
After a quickly sketched mind map where I brainstormed potential features, I organized those into a content map and considered how the content would be structured within the app. On the right is an example site map showing how a returning user would navigate to a recently played audiobook, make markups, and share or save those markups.
Interaction Map
Still in the conceptual phase, the interaction map evolved along with the site map and content map above. I diagrammed how users would navigate through the app, where they would need to make decisions or be faced with options. This was valuable in streamlining the experience and eliminating dead ends.
Wireframes - Home Screen
Quick notebook sketches led to more detailed wireframes of the home page. These were the three options I settled on with varying degrees of personalization. The final design is a combination of v1 and v2.
Wireframes - Play Screen
Maybe the most important functionality of the app is how users play audiobooks and create markups. I knew I wanted to include aspects of e-book and note-taking app functionality. The wireframes below show how a user might create an audio clip and make notes to accompany the clip.
Wireframes - Markup & Group Screen
Maybe the most important functionality of the app is how users play audiobooks and create markups. I knew I wanted to include aspects of e-book and note-taking app functionality. The wireframes below show how a user might create an audio clip and make notes to accompany the clip.
APPROACH