Party Mode Feature
Ui/UX - IHEARTRADIO ANDROID APP
Welcome to Party Mode, a new way to listen to custom radio. If friends wanted to listen to music together in the past, they all had to be in the same room on the same device. Now you can listen with your friends everywhere. College students at the library with headphones, grabbing a cup of coffee at Starbucks, riding the bus to school or work, or coworkers in the office at different workstations.
Party Mode is a feature designed during a 24 hour hack-a-thon that took place in the iHeartRadio Theater. I worked on a team of four with another product designer, Megan Clegg, and two Android Developers.
Party Mode is a new feature for the iHeartRadio app that allows users to become a party host who can invite their friends to curate their playlist. While using Party Mode the host and guests can thumb up, thumb down, and vote to skip a song. If a song gets a majority count of votes to skip, the app will automatically skip to the next song on the station. The thumbs up and down counters allow the host to keep track of how the rest of the room is feeling about the current song and they can choose to skip even if the song does not have enough votes to skip automatically.
Userflow for the Host of Party Mode
Userflow for a Guest using Party Mode
Team Party Mode at hour 23 of the Hack-a-thon, still going strong.