About Art Style Quiz
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Discover your artistic personality
Are you dramatic like the Baroque, dreamy like Impressionism, or classic like the Renaissance?
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For art enthusiasts and students
The target audience are art enthusiasts and (art) students. The skill is suited for everyone above 15 years old.
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Project details, tools used, and my role
Timeline: December 2024
Tools used: Amazon Alexa & Figma
My role: Voice User Interface (VUI) Designer
Background
As I dived into building multimodal voice skills, I gained inspiration from a visual design app I designed a few months ago, Artistico. Artistico supported artists in improving their skills while educating them on creating art. This personality quiz educates users further on art literature and history—in a fun way!
Goal of this project
To create an engaging and educational personality quiz that uses skill cards to complement audio interactions, encourages repeated use by offering fresh insights, and appeals to a culturally diverse audience of art lovers and learners across various age groups.
Deliverables: workflow, intents, sample dialogs, user flows, quiz questions, and skill images.
How I worked
This project generally follows the Design Thinking process, but I modified it a bit to fit Voice Design, as that field requires a slightly different approach.
I started the project by ideating the content of the skill and UI design choices. Doing this beforehand made it easier for me to define sample dialogs and user flows later on. Then, I created a prototype in Amazon Alexa.
Skill ideation
The idea behind Art Style Quiz is that the skill asks users 5 questions, to which they can answer with yes or no. At the end, they are presented the art style that resembles their personality most. Besides the results, there’s also an explanation on that style’s characteristics. In a nutshell, a fun way to learn more about art history!
UI design choices
As this skill is a continuation of my visual design app Artistico, I aimed to connect the two by having similar UI. Art Style Quiz’s logo is similar to Artistico, a painting palette.
As for the color palette, purple is widely associated with creativity and artistry, which makes it perfect for my art skill.
Quiz content
In total, there are 5 questions and 5 different kinds of results. Each question centers around a specific art style. Based on a logic of answers, Alexa calculates the score for the user and gives them their result.
To gain feeling for my skill early on, I started with defining fun quiz questions and the 5 art styles I wanted to use:
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Do you thrive in the spotlight?
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Do you like to go on adventures?
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Do you enjoy daydreaming about life and love?
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Are you a perfectionist?
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Do you like to express your emotions to others?
The results were formulated in a fun yet educative voice of tone, suited for everyone above 15 years old. To read the results, please refer to the slides below and navigate through the arrows.
The results are accompanied by paintings that represent that art style and era. All images were carefully curated based on a well-balanced mix of paintings by male and female artists. Below, you’ll find a photo grid of all the images used in the skill.
Sample dialog
After the content for the skill was established, a sample dialog was created. The purpose of a sample dialog is to visualize how a user would interact with the skill. As the skill was programmed to only support ‘yes’ and ‘no’ user inputs, this had to be clearly pointed out to the user.
Below is an example of one of the ways a user would take a quiz.
User flows
The next step was to visualize the journey users would take as they try to take a quiz. I used the defined sample dialog to create a user flow that showed the user experience from start to finish. To improve visibility, I split the user flow into two parts (view from left to right).
Design simulation
I recorded a simulation of how the quiz would work along with the images. Please mind that in real life, a user would use the quiz on an Echo Show device and interacts with the system using voice.
Key takeaways
Moving forward, the next steps will be to:
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Add more supported utterances, so users can answer questions with more words than ‘yes’ and ‘no’. This will make the experience feel more natural.
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Conduct usability tests to evaluate how users interact with the quiz in real life, and collect feedback.
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Iterate on the skill using the gathered insights from the users.
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Expand the skill to users in Europe. This means that I have to create a second Art Style Quiz that adheres to the restrictions that apply in the EU.
Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or would like to know more! My contact details are on the bottom of this page. Thank you.