TLDR;
Overview
My team and I designed a lyric feature for Untitled, an app for musicians to share and get feedback for their work-in-progress music. My contributions for this project include deep research into the music space, such as conducting user interviews with musicians and analyzing competitors, hashing out the user experience, and prototyping the Playground interaction for the user to tune the lyrics to their preference.
ROLE
Product Designer
TIMELINE
10/5/2025 - 10/11/25
TEAM
Piper Yu
Justin Kim
Maya Parthasarathy
SKILLS
User research
UIUX Design
Prototyping
Artists capture ideas for their songs in fragments — these get lost in voice memos, note apps, or worse, forgotten.
How can we design a lightweight interaction for artists to capture and develop their ideas on-the-go?
RESEARCH
Key insights about the music space
When it comes to writing songs, nailing the lyrics is one of the most challenging pain points artists face.
To write lyrics, many artists “punch-in": they re-record a specific section to nail the flow and develop lyrics.
Artists are resistant to AI. They avoid apps like Suno, which allows users to create a song with a prompt.
THE SOLUTION
Help musical artists get to an initial draft of lyrics faster, while keeping the lyrics personal to them and customizable.
User creates a loop of a specific section of the song
A friend sends the user a rough draft of a song they're working on. The user listens to the track and decides on a specific section they want to add lyrics to. They create a loop: this part of the song plays again and again.
User records themselves, experimenting with different lyrics in this loop
They begin “punching-in” to this part of the song. They hum, mumble, harmonize, and throw in a couple of lyrics. With each loop, a new take is captured.
User gets an initial draft of lyrics and edits until satisfied
The user replays their recordings and selects the one with the most potential. They click the Lyrics button to generate a set of lyrics custom to their take. With this new set of lyrics, they can choose the rhyme style (end, multi, internal, and variance) that best fits their preference.
LEARNINGS
Key Takeaways
Visualize as early as possible
When we were stuck on a product decision, we found that the best solution was to visualize the interface. Talking about the right decision kept things in theory; visualizing the solution helped us better understand the flow and tackle new product questions.
Immerse into the problem space
I knew nothing about the music space, but I was eager to find out as much as possible. It’s impossible to design the right solution if you don’t know what users want. I did everything I could to learn about music. It helped inform my design decisions later on.