[MA2012]

2012 Mobile Awards

mobile, web, IoT, desktop, connected devices
design champion, best studio, best start-up & IoT
plus 20 specialist nomination categories

demand design, celebrate courage

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Project Overview

In 2012, Visual Jazz and Australia’s biggest music retailer JB Hi-Fi joined forces to build and launch Australia’s first digital music streaming service, JB Hi-Fi NOW. The new platform is a world-first music discovery engine that features innovative functionality, world class user experience and sophisticated design to bring Australians unlimited music like never before. More recently the
JB Hi-Fi NOW service was extended into mobile application development, allowing users to take millions of songs with them, wherever they go.

Project Commissioner

JB Hi-Fi

Project Creator

Visual Jazz Isobar

Team

Visual Jazz Isobar would like the credit to go to the agency as a whole so that no one is unintentionally left out.

Project Brief

Competing in a market landscape that includes Itunes, Spotify and Grooveshark, we needed to develop an innovative mobile application that would take the JB Hi-Fi NOW streaming service to users when and wherever they were. While our target audience was tech savvy 14-34 year old Australians, the potential for broader reach was great.

We needed to create an industry-leading mobile application with unique design and innovative user experience to draw consumers away from their traditional mobile music listening options such as iPods and other portable mp3 devices.

Project Innovation / Need

The design of the JB Hi-Fi mobile application provides consumers with a slick, clean and cool user interface that captures the best elements of the JB Hi-Fi NOW online experience.

User Experience

The application allows users to access millions of audio tracks, artist bios and images, as well as album cover art, all displayed in a compact, digestible and slick design. With the JB Hi-Fi NOW mobile application you can:

Discover millions of songs on the go.
Find over 100,000 artists, sorted by genres and sub genres
Create playlists and listen anywhere, anytime
Store music in your phone’s memory to use when offline
Instantly access the JB charts, newest music and saved mixtapes

The JB Hi-Fi NOW mobile application allows you to experience unlimited music wherever you are.

Project Marketing

Overall, the JB Hi-Fi NOW mobile app was designed to expand on the JB Hi-Fi NOW online music service, providing the same unprecedented music service from the convenience of your mobile device. A music experience unlike any other, the application has been downloaded more than 50,000 times from the iTunes App Store since launch, and reviews on the store have been overwhelmingly positive. We continue to improve the application through various updates, improving the way users can manage their listening experience. By allowing people to listen to their music the way they want, where they want, JB Hi-Fi and Visual Jazz continue to revolutionise the way Australians can enjoy listening to music.




This category awards the best developer for when the development house/ studio comprises of more than 20 individuals.
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