Project | Jamba Music Player, PC client layout

In 2006 I did an internship at Jamba! GmBH, one of the world’s biggest mobile content companies, based in Berlin. My role was interaction and graphic designer within the Jamba Music Team, responsible for the Jamba Music client development. The Jamba Music Player is a music rental service, and it consist of a PC client and several mobile clients (J2ME, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Symbian UIQ) that allow the user to download and play DRM-protected mp3 songs form a huge web database. Once a user takes out a subscription, he can download either on his PC or on his mobile phone the music files, play them, sync the two devices, send files to friends over BT, and other features.

The project described below is an analysis of the 2006 PC client, based on few basic user tests, and two consequent restyling proposal of the front-end layout. The purpose of this work was to improve the actual layout on the user experience side and analyze how it could be opened to new feature introduction.

Actual layout review

Actual layout analysis

Alternative wireframe based on actual layout

Alternative wireframe based on actual layout - mockup

New layout proposal

New layout wireframe

New layout mockup

Final mockup and alternative configurations

Final mockup - extended configuration

Final mockup - alterneative configurations