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Visual Design Student Reimagines Apple Music With Unified Artwork, Better Discovery, and More
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not sold on the 15 sec samples a la Tinder. It sucks that the market is driven by a generation that cannot focus on something for more than 15 seconds. Where 'listening to music needs to be optimized" as not to waste any time in life. What happened to just listening to music? Skip it if it's not for you. I guess this is what being old feels like
He has some good ideas. They should hire him. But I don't see how this is a groundbreaking redesign. I do similar stuff in Pixelmator all the time. Changing font sizes, icons, and spacing is nothing impressive.
Blah blah blah.....
You obviously did not even read his case study. I personally think it is a fantastic redesign attempt and enjoyed his well crafted and articulate write-up which explained some of his decision making process.
- Ah, you've gotta love the dribbble generation... --> Condescending
- Anyone with some Photoshop skills can take an existing UI and make it look better. --> Condescending
- I've been a UI designer for 25 years, --> Self congratulatory
- Show us all that, and we can begin to decide whether this design has any merit --> Condescending
Music has always been a huge part of my life. With the advent of iTunes, I became exponentially more musically inspired. I enthusiastically moved to iPod then iPhone as an early adopter. I bought hundreds of songs and movies.
For SEVERAL years now, with the many UI iterations, I NEVER access iTunes on my iPhone or MacBook for music or movies anymore, and I haven't purchased a song or movie in as much time, and that is entirely because of the loathsome and unwieldy UI.
Apple giveth, and Apple taketh away...
my access and inspiration to music...
all because of the interface...
which is not simple or elegant...
the weakest design link, by far, company wide.
If video killed the radio star, then the iTunes UI killed music altogether-for me.
Please Apple-go back to your roots and make the iTunes UI less "wieldy" for music's sake. Take another look at this passionate and talented young man and his concepts, because you REALLY need to think different, when it comes to the iTunes UI. I hope his ideas are at least monetized for him if Apple decides to use them.
For SEVERAL years now, with the many UI iterations, I NEVER access iTunes on my iPhone or MacBook for music or movies anymore, and I haven't purchased a song or movie in as much time, and that is entirely because of the loathsome and unwieldy UI.
Apple giveth, and Apple taketh away...
my access and inspiration to music...
all because of the interface...
which is not simple or elegant...
the weakest design link, by far, company wide.
If video killed the radio star, then the iTunes UI killed music altogether-for me.
Please Apple-go back to your roots and make the iTunes UI less "wieldy" for music's sake. Take another look at this passionate and talented young man and his concepts, because you REALLY need to think different, when it comes to the iTunes UI. I hope his ideas are at least monetized for him if Apple decides to use them.
I never understood why Music app leverages on big imagery and long text such as artist description or album description. Besides Artist name, song title, album, year and genre you don't need nothing else.
Making a good music app is easy, making a good "music" app that does lot's of crap other than to play music for no obvious reasons on small displays is very hard.
No redesign will ever save Apple Music or many other all-in-one apps. What will save them is reduction in unnecessary features.
Making a good music app is easy, making a good "music" app that does lot's of crap other than to play music for no obvious reasons on small displays is very hard.
No redesign will ever save Apple Music or many other all-in-one apps. What will save them is reduction in unnecessary features.
Wait, so this would get rid of my humanly-curated 'For You' new music mix? Why in God's name would you do that? Its one of the best features of Apple Music?
No kidding! I graduated with a MFA in 2008, and nobody would give me an internship or entry level position citing "experience" even though I was flat out told I was everything they were looking for in the position I was attempting to get.
It's BS, and I had to re-teach myself and work 4 years retail before I was finally given a chance somewhere.
I hope Apple sees this redesign. It looks good, and I think he has a future in design.
I was just going to say this. People can tear it apart and re-imagine it in a million different ways. Why this guy matters, I don't know.
Did you even read his full post? Seriously? Then get back to us. He clearly layed out what problems people had with the app and how he felt they should be re-vamped.
Gotta love the "comment before reading generation"
Just when you think iTunes can't get any worse we get the return of the overkill 80s callbacks (See Fig.1)
Let's present a solution that already exists (See Fig. 2)
Fig.1
Fig.2
Ugly? yes the styling is outdated, re-style iit with iOS 10 font and replace gradients with solid white.
Just because things are a few years old doesn't mean we have to replace them. We arrived at things for a reason because they work.
Let's present a solution that already exists (See Fig. 2)
Fig.1
Fig.2
Ugly? yes the styling is outdated, re-style iit with iOS 10 font and replace gradients with solid white.
Just because things are a few years old doesn't mean we have to replace them. We arrived at things for a reason because they work.
Pretty. Now let's reimagine putting the darned shuffle and repeat buttons on the top layer of my music controls instead of making me 1) access the track I'm playing and then 2) scroll down to get at the most important features next to the play and volume buttons!
I can appreciate some of these design cues, but the approach to the My New Music Mix is a terrible idea. The whole purpose of the feature is to discover new artists, so if you're leaving it to the user just to scroll through artists and add them to the list themselves, that removes the discovery aspect altogether. People are going to stick with what they know unless you show them an alternative.
I'm not saying AM is perfect, but the My New Music Mix is awesome. I've discovered at least 1-2 artists per week I'd never heard of and would never have checked out otherwise. If it was left to me to scroll through a list of artists and add them to a mix, I'd never do it.
I'm not saying AM is perfect, but the My New Music Mix is awesome. I've discovered at least 1-2 artists per week I'd never heard of and would never have checked out otherwise. If it was left to me to scroll through a list of artists and add them to a mix, I'd never do it.
If anything, I learned that apple will reject someone simply based on academic standings which is unfortunate.
Ditto. Like the first project of Steven Spieldberg was thrown out by a producer when he submitted it, only to see Spieldberg rise to the level in a few short years that he could only have only dreamt of.
One of the most obvious problems with his "reimagined" version is the circles as a unifying art element. Circles work fine for individual artists where it's not hard to take a rectangular format image from a photographer and get a close-up or head/shoulders into the crop. But what about for groups of multiple people? That's when you're going to run into problems with weird crops and fitting problems. And you can see from his layouts that he avoided using group shots.
They bring him onboard and talk about it at WWDC17. Bragging that his redesign is coming in Apple Music for iOS 11..