Learning to dance can be very daunting on your own. There are so many resources that it’s often difficult to figure out where to start. Giving dancers the ability to filter videos available for free online and follow a training schedule required a lot of innovative thinking to make this process as simple as possible.
Goals
User: Learn how to dance online
Business: Increase the opportunity to learn dance for those who don’t live near a dance studio
Product: Design a responsive website for finding and viewing dance tutorials
Design Process
Dance is inaccessible to a lot of people. The most complex part about designing a website of this caliber was addressing all the potential filtering possibilities and how to go about approaching the best filtering method. To ensure ease of use for people wanting to learn dance, an organizational system was put in place by genre.
Research
To make sure the basic user flow of finding classes to take functioned as it should and was straightforward, two rounds of user testing took place.
There are plenty of paid services that have dance classes, but there isn’t a service that catalogs and makes free resources more digestible. Some features that are in the most demand are genre sorting and making it less daunting to find a place to start learning.