Nora Music

Designing the onboarding and profile experience for the IMDB for music fans.

Duration

May 2025

Roles

User Experience Designer

Skills

UI/UX Design
Rapid Prototyping & Iteration
User-Centric Design

Tools

Figma
Photoshop

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Overview

Background

Nora Music is a startup building a fandom platform where fans can showcase engagement, track stats, and stay connected to artist communities. I designed and delivered high-fidelity onboarding and profile UX flows, balancing playful, tactile interactions (fan cards and reveal moments) with clear, uncluttered data visualizations. The work progressed from low to high-fidelity across the onboarding, profile, and charts screens handed off directly to developers in 10 days.

Challenge

How might we design a memorable onboarding flow that makes fans feel instantly recognized and motivated to participate without overwhelming them with data or setup friction?

Concept

Search through charts on different platforms

Solution Synopsis

Process

Design Process

I began each flow by aligning with the founder on how the page fit into the overall product, then sketched the user journey and mapped the screen sequence before building. I used mid-fidelity layouts to validate navigation, toggle logic, and hierarchy, then moved into high-fidelity within Nora’s design system and built interaction states for handoff. Throughout, I stayed in sync with developers to ensure the implemented UI matched the system and the Figma handoff was frictionless.

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Moving from lofi to hifi

Iteration

We iterated on onboarding pacing and “sharability” moments, using patterns from Stationhead and Lapse (minimal screens, segmented inputs, satisfying microinteractions) and tightening data clarity across charts/search.

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Onboarding Ideation

Pros

    Cons

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      Profile Page Ideation

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        Cons

          Result

          Onboarding to Profile Page Walkthrough

          What we delivered

          Takeaways

          Designing quickly forced me to isolate the core moments of a user journey and spend iteration budget there. I also learned that fandom products live or die on social-proof mechanics: clean data visualization builds trust, but sharable engagement indicators are what make the experience feel worth returning to.

          Designed & developed
          by yours truly ❤️

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