AIMS Design Guidelines
Learn how to design AIMS features that integrate seamlessly with your site.
Introduction
Elevate your music search & discovery experience with AIMS. Get in-depth information and UI resources. Our AIMS Design Guidelines give you the tools and components for swift work.
AI Music Search
Users typically search for music using basic keywords, like “Happy Guitar Song,” expecting cheerful acoustic tunes. An effectively tagged catalog with a robust taxonomy is crucial to meet their needs.
AIMS enhances your music search with innovative features such as natural phrase search, audio references, and highlighting of best-matched parts. Check out examples and tips below on integrating our capabilities into your site.
Non-AIMS Music Search Bar
As previously stated, conventional music search bars restrict users to keyword-only searches, limiting their agility and speed in finding tracks.
Prompt Search
Find music using natural language
Prompt Search lets users find music using phrases, such like:
“Tumbleweed Rolling Along An Empty Highway”
“Have Yourself A Jazzy Little Christmas”
“Oh no. It’s Godzilla!!!”
“Orchestral indie with a soaring build-up in the style of a famous rock band, suitable for sports awards.”
“Background music for a scene in which our couple is having a first date in a stylish restaurant.”
We recommend using English for your searches, but you can also experiment with other languages.
Prompt Search works independently from any creative metadata.
User Onboarding
Users often rely on simple keywords for music searches. We recommend introducing onboarding elements into the UI to help users start using Prompt Search.
Consider adding instructions in the search bar input field and a tooltip.
Input Field Hint
Consider updating your input field hint text to:
Try prompts like “a joy-filled afternoon at the beach”
The quoted part can dynamically change every five seconds to showcase fresh examples. This aids users in grasping the flexibility of the prompt search.
Ensure your examples are brief to suit your music search bar UI and complex enough to distinguish them from basic keywords.
Search Method Recommendations
Upon activating the Music Search Bar by clicking or tapping, expand the search bar and remind users they can use complex phrases beyond basic keywords.
If you’re employing additional AIMS features like Link Search or File Search, this is a good time to inform users about them too.
Dynamic Search Bar Height
Upon activating the Music Search Bar by clicking or tapping, expand the search bar and remind users they can use complex phrases beyond basic keywords.
If you’re employing additional AIMS features like Link Search or File Search, this is a good time to inform users about them too.
Refining the Prompt
When a user initiates a search, typically by tapping the search icon, button, or pressing enter, display the results as usual.
Consider showing a one-time tooltip informing them that refining their search query can yield faster, more desirable results.
Limit this tooltip to a single instance to avoid disrupting the user’s experience.