Shazam Profile
The Shazam Profile is a conceptual user profile within the Shazam app that aims to increase engagement between the users and the app. It aims to provide an extended experience for users who are looking for extensions in the Shazam app other than merely a song-identification feature.
*This project was created for Shazam.
THE PROBLEM
Through research, we obtained that many Shazam users do not engage with the app frequently. Unlike users of Facebook and Instagram, whom most likely engage with these apps daily, many Shazam users download the app, use it a few times initially, then leave the app for weeks or months before using it again. There needed to be a way to increase user engagement with the app. To solve that, we needed to understand what would make the Shazam experience better for most users, and change users' belief that the app is merely a one-feature app that does only one thing.
TARGET GROUPS
We have identified these main groups that lose engagement with the app:
1. Long time users
The Shazam app sits idle most commonly with long time users who have downloaded the app more than a year ago. Some of users lost that initial excitement when they were first using the app; Some of the users forgot that the still have the app in their phones; Some changed their phones and forgot about the existence of Shazam; Others lost interest in identifying songs.
2. One-time users
One time users are users who used the app once and never opened it again. Some of these users once heard of a song that they really liked, needed a way to know the name of the song, and download the app to get the answer. Others were introduced to the app by peers once, and were never interested afterwards.
What the users want
These users told us that they would be very interested in extensions of the core Shazam feature. There was this overwhelming belief that users would love to know more related info about a song that they have Shazamed. If a user is motivated enough to open Shazam to identify a song, the user is very interested and emotionally connected to the song. Thus, there is a high chance that the user would enjoy extended information about the song artist, other songs of the same genre, or even what this Shazam says about the user's taste. The users also believed that seeing more of their own discovery details would make themselves feel respected by Shazam. Such details would show a sense of care and empathy with the users, which would be appreciated by the users.
THE SOLUTION
The solution to address this problem is implementing a personalized user profile in the Shazam app for each user. The interface displays information that Shazam believes would be interesting to the user, such as related songs of the user's past Shazams, most Shazamed genres by the user, news of favorite artists, user taste based on past Shazams, etc. Each section is simplified on the main page of the user profile, and has an extended version that shows the full details that is accessible by tapping on the CTA at the bottom of the section. Showing only the simplifed version of a data on the main page enable the user to quickly browse through all the information. If interested in the full details, the user can easily tap on the CTA to view the whole story.
Shazam Profile
