The Every Noise All At Once project aimed to transform a comprehensive web-based music discovery tool into a polished, user-friendly native app. Designed with a focus on seamless integration with music streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify, this app enables users to not only explore new artists and genres but also immediately access and enjoy their discoveries.
The app features a dynamic homepage that showcases curated lists of artists and genres. Once users select an artist or genre, they’re presented with tailored recommendations for similar music, deepening their exploration. The app makes it simple to dive into a wide array of music while ensuring a smooth transition between discovering and listening. By integrating directly with Apple Music and Spotify, users can instantly queue up tracks and albums on their preferred streaming platform without losing the flow of their discovery process.
This project emphasized the importance of creating a seamless, cross-platform experience that allows users to explore, recommend, and directly connect with music in a streamlined, enjoyable way. A major design challenge was ensuring these features were optimized for mobile while preserving the app's intuitive navigation and visual appeal across iOS and Android.
Project Overview
Who
The target audience for Every Noise All At Once includes music enthusiasts who want a simple, streamlined way to discover new artists, genres, and tracks. This app caters to users who enjoy using popular streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify.
What
Every Noise All At Once is a music discovery app that presents users with curated lists of artists and genres. Upon selecting a particular artist or genre, users are provided with personalized recommendations, allowing them to further explore similar music.
Where
The app is available as a native mobile experience designed for both iOS and Android platforms. It offers a cross-platform user interface that adapts to both systems’ unique aesthetics and navigation patterns, making it accessible to users across different device types.
Why
The goal of Every Noise All At Once is to simplify the music discovery process by combining a visually engaging interface with seamless integration into existing streaming platforms. Most people stream music on their phones, so creating a mobile-first experience allows users to discover, enjoy, and access their favorite tracks in one place. The app offers users the ability to quickly access and listen to the music they discover through Apple Music and Spotify, ensuring a smooth and immediate transition from discovery to listening.
To create an intuitive and engaging user experience, I drew inspiration from leading music streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify. Apple Music's clean, white-centric design emphasizes album art, providing a visually rich experience. In contrast, Spotify's dark-themed interface with bold typography offers a sleek, modern feel. By blending elements from both, I aimed to craft an interface that feels familiar and comfortable to users.
For the app's visual identity, I chose a minimalist black-and-white color scheme to create a bold and timeless aesthetic. This approach not only enhances visual appeal but also ensures clarity and focus on the content. Additionally, this neutral color palette offers flexibility, making it easy to integrate seamlessly with both Spotify and Apple Music, ensuring a cohesive design regardless of the streaming platform being used.
The logo design was inspired by two key elements: a CD and a globe. The CD symbolizes the core of music—its medium and experience—while the globe represents the global reach and diversity of musical genres. This combination reflects the app's mission to connect users with a world of music, offering personalized recommendations that span the globe.
Logos
Medium Fidelity Wireframes
Using this inspiration, I began creating medium-fidelity wireframes for both iOS and Material Design, focusing on crafting a fluid and cohesive user experience across platforms. A key challenge was accounting for the different screen dimensions between iOS and Android devices, which required thoughtful adjustments to layout proportions and navigation patterns. By addressing these differences early on, I ensured the app provided a seamless and intuitive experience regardless of the platform.
These wireframes highlighted key content areas like the homepage’s curated lists, artist and genre pages, and recommendation flows. By focusing on scalability and platform-specific details, I ensured the interface was intuitive and functional across devices. This stage also provided the opportunity to validate usability and test how key features, such as Apple Music and Spotify integration, fit naturally into the user flow. These wireframes became the foundation for refining the design and creating a polished, user-centered app.
High Fidelity Wireframes
Once the initial wireframes were finalized, I moved on to creating high-fidelity designs, which involved adding more visual detail to the wireframes. This step focused on refining the app’s visual elements, such as typography, color schemes, and iconography, to align with platform-specific design guidelines and ensure a cohesive experience across iOS and Android. The bold black-and-white color scheme, paired with clean, modern iconography, reinforced the app’s sleek and minimalist aesthetic.
One of the challenges I faced was showing the cross-platform functionality while avoiding borrowing too much from Apple Music or Spotify’s established branding. I wanted the app to feel familiar to users of these platforms but also distinct in its own right. To strike this balance, I opted for a more neutral color scheme. This approach ensured that the app didn’t veer too closely to the other platforms’ branding, which could confuse users, nor did it stray too far, which could also cause confusion. Instead, it provided a unique yet familiar experience that stayed true to the app’s identity.
Style Guide
Mockups
Prototypes
IOS
Material
Solution
This project aimed to create a native app that transforms the "Every Noise All At Once" website into an engaging, mobile-first music discovery experience. The app’s core functionality revolves around helping users explore new artists and genres, with personalized recommendations based on their interests. Seamlessly integrated with Apple Music and Spotify, it allows users to dive straight into their music discoveries by streaming directly through their preferred platform, creating a smooth transition from exploration to listening.
The design process focused on achieving a sleek, minimalist aesthetic with a bold black-and-white color scheme, ensuring a visually striking yet user-friendly experience across both iOS and Android. A key challenge was maintaining cross-platform consistency while avoiding too much overlap with existing music streaming platforms’ branding. This was achieved through a neutral design approach that felt familiar yet unique, resulting in a native app that delivers a seamless and enjoyable music discovery journey.
