Breaking the workflow: Design heuristics to support the development of usable digital audio production tools: framing usability heuristics for contemporary purposes

McGrath, Sean. 2020. 'Breaking the workflow: Design heuristics to support the development of usable digital audio production tools: framing usability heuristics for contemporary purposes'. In: AM '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Audio Mostly. Graz, Austria September, 2020. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Abstract or Description

The investigation that follows presents the results of a series of workshops with professional musicians and music producers. The work here elicits requirements for musicians in terms of software systems. The scope here explores how to design systems to support creativity and collaboration while maintaining a usable system - one which is effective, efficient and satisfies the user. The format models that of similar workshops, where a three-pronged approach is taken to focus on three different types of creativity: exploratory, combinatorial and transformational approaches. Participants describe a story that defines different user roles and expectations. Focus groups help to refine and combine the existing experiences and begin identify ways in which systems can be made more usable, and support more creative ways of working. We consider the broader consideration of usability, including defining and describing different user types and how their views of usability may differ or even be at odds. Our findings show that while existing systems are very good at supporting traditional usability metrics, they may not consider the broader implications of a considered and holistic user experience.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1145/3411109.3411133

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Computing

Dates:

DateEvent
4 July 2020Accepted
1 September 2020Published

Event Location:

Graz, Austria

Date range:

September, 2020

Item ID:

29312

Date Deposited:

06 Oct 2020 10:43

Last Modified:

12 Jun 2021 10:11

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29312

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