Music player musings

I said I struggled with the last challenge. I have been looking at what I designed and I can definitely see some problems with it.

The major issue I think is that the album/song images are displayed on a carousel type thing – were the user can swipe to move to the next song. That in itself is not a problem, But I have put clickable elements on it such as the search and menu. so if the user try to tap one of these they may accidentally move the carousel. Big usability fail!!

Illustration of a iphone music player app

Music player take two

To solve this I have moved the menu and associated control above the carousel. This was a minor rejig but would make the usability much better.

I changed the colours a bit too, not for usability, just cos I felt like it.

Illustration of music player with new layout

Daily UI 009 Music player

I really struggled with this one and am still not particularly happy with the final result. I think I found it intimidating to come up with something new when the big guys (Samsung, Apple have already produced such successful interfaces for their music players.