YaHa
13 WEEKS / YAMAHA PROMPT
13 WEEKS / YAMAHA PROMPT
When- 2019.11
What- 4th term Yamaha prompt project
Where- LA, ACCD
Yaha box inspires 5+ year old to grow on basic music knowledge by providing them with fun activities and creative learning experiences.
DESIGN PROMPT
Innovative solution to attract younger generation in learning music.
Design solution for Yamaha to develop a product and service towards younger generation music instrument learner, helping them learning music with less thresholds.
What if?
Easily!
Ideation
WHAT ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES?
90% children who had music lessons tested on average 5 IQ than their peers
—A study by E. Glenn Schellenberg at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, as published in a 2004 issue of Psychological Science
—Lynn Kleiner, founder of Music Rhapsody in Redondo Beach, CA to Parents online
87% of teachers and parents believe children should learn instrument as early as possible.
—NAMM survey conducted in January-February 2015
At the end of 2017, research showed that hybrid technology and musical instruments were the biggest trend in the instrument market.
-Top 4 Emerging Trends Impacting the Musical Instrument Market Until 2020: Technavio
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Learning music instrument is hard and unwelcoming.
Since music instrument requires lots of rules to learn. Learner would give up on learning them once they are tired of not playing anything soon and tired of learning complicated theory.
WHO?
Characteristics
5 year old +
Why?
Storytelling
Creative play
Age 6 to 9 is the best age start to learn music instrument.
Yaha targets on age 5 will be a good period to start to introduce music theory to our target user.
When one plays with imagination to transcend what is known in the current state, to create something new.
They learn by starting out with a parent telling a story or reading aloud to a child, and leading to a child retelling the story in their own words.
Hard to make connection
Kids have difficult times to connect their common sense with the professional terms used in music. This makes their learning process extremely hard when they first encounter music theory.
INSIGHTS
The product should make friendly connection both functionally and visually with user.
The product should lead kids to understand fundamental music components through effective input to the play.
Expanding story telling into kid’s musical play for them to learn concept in time, rhythm, melody and form.
The product should guide kids having organized thinking process and composing process.
How to improve music learning process according to the insight?
Direction and mock up 1
First direction focusing on toys that interacts with friends. Games that help kids to learn rhythm and matching music signs.
Direction and mock up 2
What if making a music toy that helps kids to create music in different approach? And through this fun experience they can learn basic music theory.
Direction and mock up 3
What if Yamaha could come up with their own IP and make a toy that use drawing to make music?
DESIGN DIRECTION
Direction and mock up 4
Using modular pieces to inspire kids to connects color and shape with the basic knowledge in music.
Shape and colors are used as the fundamental tools to create music. The method is designed to lower the learning threshold for kids to understand music and learning music.
HOW DOES IT MATCH THE INSIGHT?
Shape and colors-
Friendly connection
Colorful object and interesting shapes can interest user more, and have a much more welcoming sense for user.
Construct with simpler tools-
Extra engagement
A learning companion-
Storytelling play
Shape and colors are used as the fundamental tools to create music. The method is designed to lower the learning threshold for kids to understand music and learning music.
Character or specific ip could help yamaha to expand on storylines. This engages kids in to more activities that associates with music.
Modular design-
Organized thinking on music creation
Composing a simple song or rhythm by following the instruction could help kids have better understanding on what was their input.
HOW YAHA WORKS?
Analog+ Digital experience+ Age compression
IP DEVELOPMENT
Story- Music elf yaha
Once upon a time, there are bunch of music elf living on the music island. Their name is called Yaha. They about to take you through a fantastic journey of music.
APP INTERFACE- Storytelling elements
Play
Yaha provides tons of fun musical games that could interact with the device.
Export
Yaha box allows user to export their masterpiece to share, and to explore more possibilities.
Instruction
The instruction page will lead user to understand the whole system of yaha in fast and easy way.
Convert
Yaha app allow user to import their favourite music sheet, and turning them into forms of colors and shape.
Game
Blue daunar
Blue daunar
Blue daunar
Blue daunar
Blue daunar
Blue daunar
Blue daunar
Blue daunar
1. Color stand for a note
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Yaha uses color as the language to help kids make connection with the music notes.
If user want to create more complicated note, They can stack few notes on top of each others. The light sensor inside each holes will sense what notes user created.
2. Stack for chord
3. Length for duration
4. Start to composing
Yaha box contains storage space for user to storage their music notes. The storage space has divided space for user to organize their notes.
The notes can be play for longer duration if user pick a longer piece.
After user manage how to use the toy they can started to compose a harder song by combining different color and different duration of notes.
Storage space
Effects
Yaha box also provide feature edit button for more advanced player to manipulate their creature.
Feature includes: volume, different filter, also pace and speed, record, play, forward-notes, backward-notes, stop.
Speaker
The speaker is on the front edge of the device. So user could receive good quality of voice when their creation is played.
Digital device support
Start to play!
Two blue legs on the back and the slot on the device designed as a stable support for various digital device that connects with yaha.
After setting up everything, you can start to play with the device or with your own creation on top.
HOW DOES YAHA WORKS?
User Scenario
LOGOTYPE + ICON DEVELOPMENT
Logotype Ideation
Icon Ideation
PHYSICAL PROTOTYPE
