Souvinear is an up and coming iOS app aimed to provide music fans a dedicated platform to save their memories and experiences. Souvinear encourages users to create memories of their own. Therefore, our app functions to facilitate stronger and more frequent connections within music communities in both physical and digital environments. Souvinear takes into account four main elements, that we would like you to utilize to the fullest: innovative music recommendations, reliving your greatest memories, creating a network of fans/connections, and popularizing new and upcoming artists. With Souvinear you are able to swap your favorite music with anyone and discover curated music recommendations. You are also able to reflect on certain nights by using the journaling feature, which keeps a log of all your best moments. Connect with other Souvinear users and expand your social/musical tastes. Finally, users may discover less popular Philadelphia artists using our proximity-based spotlight.

As a front-end designer and developer, I was tasked (during the Winter term) with working on the connections section of our iOS app, therefore, I needed to become accustomed to the building tools we were using: Swift 4 and Xcode 10. Throughout the IDM-362 course I used the tools and techniques I learned over the 10 week course in Xcode to build out a detailed prototype on the connecting functionality within Souvinear. Even though I did not get to implement all the functionality I had hoped to, I was able to get a good base and some extra functionality working. I was then able to successfully deliver and merge my work for the connections section to the rest of my Souvinear team, who could expand, implement, and iterate from there.

The Context and Challenge

Context & Problem: For the purpose of this project, I specifically tackled an area within Souvinear’s app as a whole, being the connections user flow. I prototyped this flow in Xcode to be passed on to other developers within the Souvinear team.

Goals & Objectives: My role during this project was to handle the UX, design, and overall base development of the connections section for Souvinear. One of the goals I had set for myself at the beginning of the project, regardless of the amount of functionality or content that was finished, was to ensure my work gets properly merged into our Souvinear project as a whole. This was successfully accomplished as I was able to meet with developers from Souvinear to transmit my connections work into the project as a whole. The challenge for me personally definitely resided with the scope and mastering the techniques of Xcode, considering I have not touched it before Winter term. However, I was able to learn valuable lessons such as, Xcode strategies (using a constraint layout, segue way performance, and core data methods) and scoping projects to the simplest level of functionality and workability.

The Process and Insight

I began the design of the connections section flow with a sketch of an IX (interaction) flow. This details basic engagements of the interaction, which included various user rules, initial ideation descriptions, and a basic visual-graph style flow to help the Souvinear team understand design decisions. The digitized version of the IX flow can be viewed under the sketch as a PDF link. I also created a detailed connections states document, while unfortunately was not fully applied in this project, it will be further implemented with what I was able to get done, next term. The link to view this is also available underneath the IX flow sketch as a PDF link.

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The Solution

The solution for this project concluded to be polished design documents for the connections section (i.e. the connection states and IX flow document) and a novice working prototype in Xcode. The layout adheres to Xcode’s constraint-based layout system and works across all iPhone sizes. Core data was pushed and pulled using entity objects, the entity itself, persistent containers, and managing the relationships between them.

The Results

There were a few pieces of functionality I was not able to get to. However, I believe the project to be a success as I was able to learn many new mobile development techniques and further Souvinear’s connection side along. I was able to relay the work I had completed back to Souvinear, which we will all be iterating on next term. A key lesson I have learned throughout this project is to always scope down in terms of functionality and to not spend too much time on the beginning design stages. The UX and design documentation I have for the connections section is good but too much focus on these stages, thwarted some of my development.

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