Ok, so hopefully you all can see the picture clearly. You have to click the image to see all of it. If not i can send it to you personally via email. The first box is the Pandora homepage, the main difference is that under the create a station button there is a new button “Import Music”. Once this button is selected then you will be navigated to the Import Music page, which is the 2nd diagram. In the Import Music screen you are allowed to selected files or folders that may contain you own music to be uploaded into pandora to be dissected and for new personal music stations to be created. Also, I decided to add the option of being able to select other users that you are friends with and that you know have desired music. Here you would have to be friends with this person, and all you would have to do is select a friend from a drop down box and then hit the import button. After all importing and sharing is completed then you will be re-directed to the home page and where your stations are listed new import stations will be clearly labeled for you. Each individual user should have sharing preferences set up in the event you dont want to share anything or want to set up a limit. I think it would be fun to further expand this and incorporate other ideas our group shared in our discussion.

November 10, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Overall, I think you have a good sketch up of an itunes change for Pandora. I like you implementation of the “import music” button at the top of the page next to where a user would know to go to create a station. I think Pandora needs to be able to create a new station from the users itunes like your sketch shows, but have you thought of also implementing an itunes library into an existing playlist. I think it would be beneficial to the user being that they could just open their itunes if they wanted to play their music they own already. If maybe you mix it with other inputs of music selection, then the user will get a better variety and learn about music they didn’t know they liked. Nice work on the design.