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Apple Music Set for Design Overhaul in Time for WWDC in June
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Hurrah, so aesthetics will likely again overrule easy to use interfaces!
What if the potential was 130 million users? Then it is somewhat of a major fail.
You just need to think different!
OMGGG YESSS! I'm so excited!!!
My Apple Music wish list (and I'm sure many others will agree):
- Apple Music only headphones: make Apple Music only heard through special headphones with a newer connector, that way we can buy a adapter for it (under $99 please).
-Thinner design... In keeping with traditions and making every product thinner, please find a way to make Apple Music thinner!
-Rose Gold interface: Omg, we need more rose gold! please make this happen!
-More cringey Taylor Swift commercials - nothing like watching Taylor Swift act cool singing rap music... we need more!
Please don't let us down Apple...
My Apple Music wish list (and I'm sure many others will agree):
- Apple Music only headphones: make Apple Music only heard through special headphones with a newer connector, that way we can buy a adapter for it (under $99 please).
-Thinner design... In keeping with traditions and making every product thinner, please find a way to make Apple Music thinner!
-Rose Gold interface: Omg, we need more rose gold! please make this happen!
-More cringey Taylor Swift commercials - nothing like watching Taylor Swift act cool singing rap music... we need more!
Please don't let us down Apple...
Focus time on making the design clean and great, straightforward to use and consistent across functions. If the focus is mistakenly on an interface designed to bring in extra revenue to keep shareholders happy it will only be a disaster long term.
Dump the Beats branding also. This is Apple Music isn't it?
Make it simple. Make it clean. Make it consistent. Make it great.
Focus on what counts and success will follow.
Dump the Beats branding also. This is Apple Music isn't it?
Make it simple. Make it clean. Make it consistent. Make it great.
Focus on what counts and success will follow.
I agree.
I've had no real problems with it. I can find my stuff under 'My Music' on the iOS app, and Playlists are right under that. On the desktop app, there are both 'My Music' and 'Playlists'. A little inconsistent, but I'm used to it now.
The only thing about playlists, is that on the desktop App, the Apple Music vs. my own playlists have different icons, I can tell which is which - can't tell that on the iOS app.
It just takes a few hours to get used to it. I guess most people aren't willing to learn how to use things anymore.
The thing I do NOT like are the Beats music channels, or most of Apple's playlists - they have too much rap on there. I wish there would be more variety. I wish I could say, 'I want to totally avoid gangsta rap on everything I choose'.
Suggestion: back in the 80s and 90s Apple produced "style guides" that laid down a lot of good rules for the design of user interfaces - like how to make functionality easily discoverable and consistent by (e.g.) using consistent visual cues to distinguish buttons and controls from static content, how to label buttons on dialog boxes to avoid ambiguity about what "OK" or "Cancel" did, etc. etc.
The books were quite heavy and should produce adequate blunt force trauma when applied vigorously to the heads of the clowns who designed the current iOS music app. If they're only available online, I'd suggest that an iPad 3 (nice and heavy, with tapered edges) would hurt the most.
I'm not sure if they cover things like 'not hanging on a white screen because you can't find the Internet even though my entire music collection is stored on the iPad".
Just one thing. Open up on My Music, I paid for that content and prefer it to your For You suggestions.
What service did Apple got right the first time??
iTools?? Ping? Mobile me ? iCloud? The reality is that Apple has never been so strong with services but awesome with Hardware and Software.....but the "it just works" never really applied to any service, and it is starting not to apply to HW and SW lately
I'd argue many of us did take the time to learn it, which is why we're so critical of it.
Maybe that's why they chose to use the Bill Graham Civic building instead of their usual place. Seems a bit to much to announce there tho in a 2 hour time frame.
It's all a convoluted mess: Apple Music, iTunes.
iTunes is like the old science fiction movie "The Blob", it just grew and grew sucking up everything. iTunes is like someone took 25 pounds of dung and tried to stuff it in a 5 pound bag.
iTunes is like the old science fiction movie "The Blob", it just grew and grew sucking up everything. iTunes is like someone took 25 pounds of dung and tried to stuff it in a 5 pound bag.
The thing that is surprising though, music is not technically a new service for apple. They do have a long history of providing music.
That's fine if you use the catalog and have gradually internalized your own cognitive model of what "the catalog" actually is.
To the rest of us, it's just incomprehensible visual noise on the UI. Like demons taunting us from a hidden underworld. Popping up, obstructing and sowing confusion, before disappearing back from whence they came.
What terrible use of grammar. This should be "easier to use."
I never understood why the punctuation must sit inside the quotes.
While I dislike the Apple Music interface, it's not totally unbearable when you get your head round it(I must prefer spotify's UI), but being able to control one's music with siri is great. Airplay integration would also be most welcome...
Hey siri, play "insert song name" on kitchen speakers.
What really brings Apple Music down for me is the non existence of generic common playlists, such as the UK charts, most popular music right now etc. I get the idea that a lot of people like music personalised but for me I would like the generic option of just putting on the UK charts.
Hey siri, play "insert song name" on kitchen speakers.
What really brings Apple Music down for me is the non existence of generic common playlists, such as the UK charts, most popular music right now etc. I get the idea that a lot of people like music personalised but for me I would like the generic option of just putting on the UK charts.
The only way I would switch to AM is if the app was functional. I tried to use AM with the free trial, but it just felt wrong. Also, I wish Apple offered a student discount like Spotify does. $60/yr instead of $120/yr.
Honestly, I feel that too many Apple employees are trawling the dregs of the internet or scrolling mindlessly trying to get inspiration from feeds on an ugly blue website called Facebook. Close the social media, look at design classics, get out into the real world for inspiration. And most of all, think different, think better.
I think I will give Apple music a try this week. If it doesn't tickle my fancy I will return to Google music. My love of technology makes me want to make sure I have the best service and more importantly I give all competing services a chance.