Concept • Mobile App Design

Aulos

ROLE

Sole Designer & Researcher

TIMELINE

May 2025 - July 2025

TOOLS

Figma, Miro, Maze, Illustrator

INTRODUCTION

Our media habits are extensions of ourselves: the music we listen to, the movies we watch, the books we read. Web and mobile technologies allow us to record, catalog, and curate our experiences, yet no platform lets us effectively organize all forms of media together.

We Are What We Consume

SOLUTION

While many tracking apps today exclusively focus on consumption of a single medium, I decided to build a tool that allows users to record and reflect on all types of media consumption through timebased or custom-made moodboards. I set out to create an experience that allows users to not only draw connections between different types of media, but to show how the media we consume reflects our everyday lives.

Record Your Media Consumption All In One Place

Skip the tedium of tracking what you’ve watched, read, or listened to. Aulos generates a monthly multimedia moodboard based on your connected media accounts—ready to refine and make your own.

Your Month in Media

Go deeper with custom themed moodboards or personal leaderboards. Add images and notes to help you draw connections and personalize your experience.

Make It Your Own

Aulos logs your cross-platform media habits and gives you insights by comparing each month’s consumption. See what changed, what stuck, and what shaped your inner world.

See Your Habits Evolve

01. RESEARCH

With over two decades of digital history behind us, mobile technologies and social media have become archives of personal memories.

Music and media are central to how we remember, understand, and share our personal histories—and technology has become the primary vehicle for engaging with these memories. Designing an interface that catalogs personal media and facilitates meaningful reflection has the potential to offer a deeply resonant and valuable user experience.

Nostalgia Has Gone Digital

By analyzing four competitors—Last.fm, Letterboxd, Pinterest, and Notion—I discovered clear market gaps Aulos is uniquely positioned to fill, most notably, the support for multiple media types, visual moodboarding, and chronological organization of media.

Competitive Analysis

02. EMPATHIZE

My survey explored the 3 main problems that users face while tracking their media consumption: Tedium, Commitment and Consistency, and Platform Overload. Media tracking is often a manual, time-consuming process and with busy schedules and competing responsibilities, users frequently cited a lack of time or mental bandwidth to track media consistently, even when they want to. Even worse, users have to juggle multiple apps to track different types of media leading to fragmented, overwhelming experience for media tracking.

Survey Analysis

Based on insights from user research, how might we design a mobile experience that empowers users to seamlessly document and organize their media habits and provide consumption analytics to help users recognize patterns, track their evolving tastes, and build self-awareness over time.

Problem Statement

03. IDEATE

I designed an information architecture that defined the structure of the experience and organized its core features.

Information Architecture

I drafted 40 low fidelity wireframes to test different ways to organize information in my app’s design. These served as valuable references as I began increasing the fidelity of wireframes.

Low Fidelity Paper Wireframes

04. PROTOTYPE

IMPLEMENTING FEEDBACK #1

Reducing Friction in Onboarding

Asking users to connect ALL of their streaming platforms at once is time-consuming and likely to increase user dropoff.

Pain Point

Ask users to pick their go-to streaming service per category. Limit to only “Music” and “TV / Movies.” User research indicated that these categories are widely used, while other media types are not.

Solution