Thinkful
Winter Hackathon
1st Place
Winner
Summary
Music teachers hosting virtual lessons take a collective exhale!!!
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Zoom now allows teachers to guide a student's rhythm with a metronome, playback and share recordings, and schedule lessons within live sessions. Accelerate students' progress and never miss scheduling future lessons.
Roles and Responsibilities
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Research - Survey
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Secondary Research
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Competitive Analysis
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How Might We
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Personas
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Branding
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User Stories
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Story Board
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Journey Map
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User Flow
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Sketches
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Wireframe
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Prototype
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Usability Testing
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UI
Tools​
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Figma
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Zoom
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Google Forms
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Notion
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Slack
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Adobe Illustrator
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Canva
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Maze Usability Testing
Problem​
Music teachers currently don't have the tools to streamline the growth and success of their students during virtual lessons.
Secondary Audience
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Music Students
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2-64 years old
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0-9 years taking lessons
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Practice 30 minutes to 3 hours a week
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Participate in lessons weekly
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Audience
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Music Teachers
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Teaching online
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Have upwards of 40+ students
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Conduct 1 on 1 lessons
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Average lesson times are 30 minutes
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Make roughly $45.00 an hour
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Solution
Provide virtual music teachers the tools to teach rhythm with a built-in metronome, share recordings in sessions to present teachable moments, and schedule the next lesson with ease.
Process
Discover - Define - Design - Deliver
Discovery and Research
During this design sprint, I was in charge of secondary research. Most data was derived from the 2021 Vibrant Music Teaching Industry Report, a survey completed by 1,064 Music Teachers in September and October of 2021.
75%
of students participate in music lessons weekly.
61.5%
of video conferencing is done on laptops or desktops.
88%
of Music Teachers are teaching online because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
51%
of Music Teachers have had students quit music lessons due to online formatting.
79%
of Music Teachers plan to teach virtual lessons after the pandemic.
77%
of the
online music lesson market.
Screen sharing and recording are the most used features in video conferences.
Currently holds
How Might We
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Competitive Analysis
Personas
User Stories
As a (user) Virtual Music Teacher I would like to use a metronome so that my students can easily keep rythm.
As a (user) Virtual Music Teacher I would like to be able to play videos of my students, recorded in session, back to my students, to present teachable moments.
As a (user) Virtual Music Teacher I would like to play a video of myself singing for my student so that they could sing along with it in our lesson.
As a (user) Virtual Music Teacher I would like to be able to schedule my next lesson from the meeting screen so that I don't forget to schedule.
Branding
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Story Board​
User Journey
