For my year-long graduate school thesis, I did a series of user research studies on collections in people's homes. My goal was to develop a solution that would directly address the lack of personal investment, tangibility, and value found in digital music today.

1. BobiDigital
ANTHONY NGUYEN | INDIANA UNIVERSITY

2. Generation Y

4. Quality vs. Quantity
http://vimeo.com/16638983
http://www.rockmelt.com/

7. Why old stuff?
“Because digital isn’t
the same. It feels empty.
It doesn’t allow me
to be heard.” {S}

8. Minimalism?

9. N o t a ______.

10. Remediate Music.
Collections.
Expression.

11. Brainstorm

12. Subtle.
Adaptable.
Built for
expression.
Different.
Fun.
http://lookbook.nu/look/1336497-where-are-you

13. MeshPlayer.
Cloud + Local collections
integrated at last

14. Social jukebox.
Streamlining the music experience at
small parties for guests

15. Digital shelves.
Showcasing your digital
collections physically

16. http://hypebeast.com/2010/08/mishka-2010-fall-collection-lookbook/
A home for organizing digital libraries.

17. Not just another digital frame.

18. System within
a system.

19. Systems = Tech Jungles.

20. Touchable.
http://hp.com
http://apple.com

21. Build value.

22. Concept
Sketches

23. Workflow

25. Bobi Digital Shelf

27. USB DLNA
NAS UPNP

29. The Side View

32. The Album View

38. Art Tabs

41. Gesture Navigation

45. The Compressed View

46. Search

47. Notorious B.I.G.
NOTORIOUS B.I.G.

48. NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
Search Results

49. NOTORIOUS B.I.G.

51. TAP TO CREATE
Mixcrate

53. |

54. ROCK

55. ROCK

56. TRONIC ROCK HIP-

57. Mixcrate Labels

60. Priced at $199.
Sold at Apple stores.
Expansion packs ($99).

61. Haptic feedback.
‘Worn’ covers.
Vertical orientation.

62. 6 Lessons
Learned

63. Good design
doesn’t give
a hoot about
limitations.
http://unplggd.com

64. Static mediums
can be changed
into organic ones
through the right
use of technology.

65. Great artists steal,
but always strive to innovate!
http://grooveshark.com http://last.fm

66. http://ikea.com
Get inspired daily.
Make it a habit.

67. Set a goal.
Surpass it.
Repeatedly.
http://convoy.tumblr.com

68. Create time
for reflection.
http://emmas.blogg.se/

69. Entelligence: The evolution of the TV -- Engadget
SmartMedia: Pinkerton Deluxe Edition
VideoMemories: Paper Tiger-The Bully Plank
ShowcasingWealth: George Lois at Home in New York City
CoolGraph: ubi-comp-mainstream.png (PNG Image, 564x393 pixels)
VinylWars: What's Next? The Upcoming Digital Paradigm | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
RetroTech: Day 64 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
BookCollector: Sharon & Chris' Monochrome Wonder House Tour | Apartment Therapy New York
BlogDemand: Suicide Sundaes - Week 39 - EARMILK.COM
Thank you.
AugmentedReality: Songfever—Augmenting Reality of Music
FashionInnovation: Nussbaum: What Fashion Can Teach You About Innovation | Co.Design
PhysicalVSDigital: Bookshelf Cupboard — Credenzas/Sideboards -- Better Living Through Design
Collections: desire to inspire - desiretoinspire.net - Reader's home #1
DiminishingMedia: emmas designblogg - design and style from a scandinavian perspective
DesignCatalyst: Design With Intent: Change Observer: Design Observer
PixelCraftIsHard: Learning to Love the Pixel: Exploring the Craft of Icon Design - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the des
NoCopyRightInFashion: Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture | Video on TED.com
BookShelves: hiroshi nakamura and NAP architects: shibuya booksellers
Wes Michaels AgeOfRemix: Mitsuo Katsui | GraphicHug™ - Everybody Needs a Hug
Nina Mehta DigitalHoarding: Being Green, Greedy or Acting a Fool? | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
OldBooks: SF-House Tour-Andrew and Kathleen's Inspired Home : Apartment Therapy
Anna Eaglin WealthKnowledge: SF-House Tour-Andrew and Kathleen's Inspired Home : Apartment Therapy
Tianlu Xue DigitalDJ: How Far Have We Come? A Digital DJ's Perspective - Home - that1TIME: Spreading the Culture of House.
Eugene Siew VJing: electronic art « Skynoise
Katie O’ Donnel FutureDJ: Swisscom
John Wayne Hill CustomersRealShops: Slinging Vinyl in a Digital Age - Scotch Plains-Fanwood, NJ Patch
BookshelfWallpaper: RENOVATE -- Better Living Through Design
Chris Basham
PastDisappearing: Study: Audio recordings of US history fading fast - Yahoo! News
Xiying Wang AlbumArtBlog: hrstudioplus
Sam Shahrani MobileGaming: The Future of Social Games is Mobile: Tech News «
Robert Beagley MusicVisCollection: LastGraph Custom Visual Music History Wall Art | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
Jerimiah Wrestler C60PaperTapes: I MISS MY PENCIL
Allison Cooke SimplicityIsBeautiful: Wanderfly on Cool Hunting
Facebook: Where do you get your music? BitTorrent? iTunes? Amazon MP3?
Marisol Wong-Villacres SocialGamingvs.Music:The Future of PC Gaming, According To The Creator Of FarmVille
Thomas Baker SketchButtons&MoodMusic: stereomood
Dan Richert Tangible jukebox
Ammar Halabi CopyrightDigital: Ch. 1, 36: How to Build a Digital Library - Google Books
Kathleen Surfus Visual Expression for Organizing and Accessing Music Collections
AssistiveMusicBrowsing: using self-organizing maps
Anjana Thirumalai
collecTable: Natural UI Music Collections
Chit Meng Cheong SemiAutomatedOrganize: Creating collections with automatic suggestions and example-based refinement
Juntao Yu ScratchLiveIntro - Serato.com
Matt Edwards FontsForCapstone: Four Ways to Mix Fonts
Miles Ashton WorkflowFonts: chart_1.jpg (619×450)
Gabrielle Gonzales MangaingLibrariesSeeComments: How (and Why) to Manage Multiple Music Libraries in Any Media Player
iTunesFolderConfusion: Facebook | Do I need to keep my iTunes music folder?
Allie Hillman BookshelfWallpaper
Louise Lee SmartMusic: Future of Smart Music Systems? | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
Erik Stolterman JustinMusicVisualization: A "Magnum Opus" of Music Visualization « self conscious white noise
Marty Siegel TabletopApp: www.mtg.upf.edu/static/media/Julia-Fernandez-Carles-ISMIR-2009.pdf
Eli Blevis Musicnodes: The Idea of Widgets Ubiquity
MusicDiscoveryViaAudioBasedSimilarity: | Music Rainbow
Shaowen Bardzell
Visualizing Music: WiimotesVisualization: Sync Lost « Visualizing Music
Jeff Bardzell MUSICtable: A map-based ubiquitous system for social interaction with a digital music collection
HCID Class of 2011 VisualGraphicMusicLib: Visualizing and exploring personal music libraries
MusicCocktail: Interacting with Music in a Social Setting
WEISERUbiqituous: Citation Query The computer for the twenty-first century
Pick-and-Drop: A Direct Manipulation Technique for Multiple Computer Environments
MusicAtParties: EXPLORING SOCIAL MUSIC BEHAVIOR: AN INVESTIGATION OF MUSIC SELECTION AT PARTIES
iTunesDJSerato: openDJ - what is it?
KinectVideoChatGestures: SiliconANGLE — Blog — Video Kinect Connects Xbox Users
PartyVoting: Music selection using the PartyVote democratic jukebox
MoodManagement: via the Digital Jukebox - Knobloch - 2006 - Journal of Communication - Wiley Online Library
OlderJukeBoxInspiration: Juke Box Britain: Americanization and Youth Culture, 1945–60 — J Design Hist
WhozThat?: evolving an ecosystem for context-aware mobile social networks
MobileContextAwareComputing: Fusing mobile, sensor, and social data to fully enable context-aware computing
TempoVolumeThumbnailVis: THUMBNAILDJ: VISUAL THUMBNAILS OF MUSIC CONTENT
MusicVisualization: Kinect Hack!! | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

70. Q&A