Context

Quite a number of people test their skills in front of an audience, and among those are street buskers like musicians, instrumentalist, magicians and artists in general. It's important for street performers to carefully select their performance locations, taking into account social and geographical factors, to make informed decisions about where to showcase their talents effectively.

Problem statement

Enhancing experience of street buskers by simplifying their space discovery and optimizing recognition, resulting in increased potential earnings.

Street musicians Problems

  1. Difficulty in finding good space with proper acoustic environment.
  2. Added extraneous noise while busking.
  3. Presence of harmful surroundings.
  4. Recognition by people monetarily wise.

Street musicians tactics

  1. Appearance of musicians, for ex: not showing expensive electronics.      
  2. Avoiding conflicts with other street performers.
  3. Being aware of permits by law and theft when they are tipped.
  4. Not on any substance of drug while performing.
  5. Recognizing molestation by viewers.
  6. Getting gigs from near by organizations like restaurants and cafes.

Audience

The work will focus on street musician as an user and designing for the same. The UX metrics influenced are happiness, engagement and task success. Check out this framework followed.

Design Process

Hypothesis

Street musicians are more cautious about geographical locations and likely to influence social aspects of that place. Hence, place selection + social impact is directly proportional to increased earnings.

93.5%                                              

likelihood of higher donations seen in busker genre and location effects within circus performers and magicians than other artist.

$1000 - $100,000/yr

A typical income range of street musician.

$3.76 - $ 2.09

A donation from known and anonymous donor using card/pay-pal is higher than, a anonymous donor using payment apps.

Usability findings