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He also wants to transpose the entire piece up a bit, so he double-taps to bring up the menu. He chooses 'edit'->'select all', and then drags a note up to transpose the whole piece.

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Analysis

Learnability

The app is intended This user interface was designed to be as easy to learn and use as possible.

Efficiency

As necessitated by screen size constraints, some features are hidden in menus, which makes it somewhat less efficient to use them. Other efficiency issues will hopefully come up in user testing.

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intuitive as possible, and gives brief explanations of features as the user encounters them. Overall it should be pretty learnable.

Efficiency

The interface is designed with efficiency in mind -- a user should be able to do things quickly and easily. Some of this is necessitated by the smartphone platform, as the limited screen real estate forces us to put less-commonly used tools in a hidden menu.

Safety

Any action short of deleting a note or a file should be fully reversible with a similar action. For instance, moving a note to the wrong pitch can be undone by simply moving the note again.