User Personas

User Persona | By Excel

Name: Jeffrey Bloom
Description: Computer Science Major / Music Enthusiast / College Student
Problems:

1. Concerned with practicing his coding skills
2. Has to work during the semester, has little time to jam with friends
3. Passionate about exploring different mediums of music

Javelin Board

1. Potential User 1
   • Customer
     • Hobbyist between 14-25 years old.
   • Problem
     • Music hobbyists do not have an online outlet for practicing coding while also riffing.
   • Risks
     • Music hobbyists want to have a collaborative, coding based, music generation app where they can save and share their pieces.
     • Music hobbyists are looking at coding as an alternative to play music.
     • Music hobbyists want to collaborate with people in real-time to jam with other people
     • Real-time streaming session might be a bit too difficult to implement.

User Persona | Baivab

Ron the Enthusiast

• Name: Ron Jackson
• Job: Economist/ Music Enthusiast
• Location: Stuart, Florida
• Income: $80,000 / year
• Background: Ron is an economist based on Florida and has been involved in live coding for 2 years. He does live coding when he is free and has been using FoxDot and Supercollider to do this in his computer. He wants to get this experience in the form of web and collaborate with other live coders, he is looking forward into Jam Session App.
• Stories
  • Ron as a composer wants to showcase his live coding skills using the jam session app.
  • He as a collaborator looks forward to collaborating with other users so he can work with multiple people.
  • He as a music enthusiast want to develop awesome music and publish this music online.
  • He eventually wants to make a band using the jam session app by connecting to other people and perform as a band to showcase it to the world.

User Persona | Quetourah

Name: Verena Rotner Age: 24 Job: Music Engineer Salary: $100,000 /year Location: New York City/ Los Angeles About:

• Attends music festivals for fun and work
• Has several sides projects on her Github account
• likes live-coding music

Struggles:

1. Finding other people to collaborate with because of her demanding job
2. Learning on her own with limited time and no one to help for her weird break hours
3. Keeping all of her work in one place

User Persona | Yan Feng

Name: Bryant Horton Job: Office clerk Income: $35,000/year Location: Seattle, Washington Story:

• Office worker who listens to music often throughout the day.
• Enthusiastically plays various instruments
• Creates original instrumental music as a hobby