locals
A WIP exploration into the needs of local music, and keeping smaller discreet scenes alive
the problem
“College kids just aren’t coming to these things anymore.”
Local music scenes, function on a gradient of “you have to know someone.” In a peculiar age where young people are becoming more isolated than ever, this has become a little more complicated.
This project is an attempt to see if there is a digital solution to a very specific issue, with very specific people, in specific places.
catching up
Tackling this project has looked like this.
The issue was expressed to me by a promoter. It posed a lot of interesting questions and issues:
- Why these past few years?
- Is it just this town?
- Is the semi-secretive nature of some of these events to blame, or are college students just more risk-averse now than ever?
These questions excited me, and I wrote down a lot of my thoughts and even tried to make a brand. It wasn’t long before I ran into some obvious problems in solving the issue with an app.
- These things are “gatekept” for a reason. Is accessibility really a good goal to have?
- There are already apps for this reason, even if the most successful one is Instagram. What are we trying to do differently?
This was where I got stuck. I kind of gave up here, deciding it was best to be left be.
currently: mapping
This sort of mapping is something I used to dread, but now I recognize it as a great way to sort through my thoughts.
Here, I tried to look into basic user issues, wants, and needs. The red post-its here note painpoints that this user might have.
It other points, the post-its turn into more of a business pitch, of why this app would be a solution over others. Here, the red denotes immediate issues I ran into, and the green denotes solutions that could be proposed.
This was a breakdown of some suggestions/wants from the promoter’s original idea.
Overall this is what the planning file looked like…which isn’t completely transparent, because the original planning file actually was the image below.
