Apple Music on iOS?Pretty good ! Apple Music on your desktop ? middling wide criticise as asteaming pile of refuse — largely because of the messy iTunes integration .
More and more user have pointed out the acquire problems with iTunes of lately ; just this workweek , The Atlantic ’s Robinson Meyer gave us a long , very specific summation of all of the user experience screw propeller - ups that proveiTunes Really Is That Bad . Meanwhile , “ the iTunes Store back - oddment is a toxic hellstew of unreliability,”writes Marco.org ’s Marco Arment . “ Everything that touches the iTunes Store has a spotty record for me and almost every Mac possessor I know . ” Some have even question if dissever Apple Music off of iTunes would help , asBen Lovejoy recentlysuggested .
Well , that ’s exactly what fashion designer and developerAndrew Ambrosinodecided to bemock up for the hell of it — and the results are n’t spoilt . “ For Apple Music to win , iTunes as we make out it must die , ” Ambrosino explains on his website . “ Anyone who uses Mac regularly with Apple Music is clamoring for a standalone Apple Music app , just like on iOS , and just like Photos on OS X. ”
His first move ? Simplify the musician UI constituent . “ One seafaring bar up top , one player down bottom . Content in between . And a grid that makes more common sense ( really – go compare them ! ) , ” he writes .
On his redesign of the much - criticized My Music feature article :
’ My Music ’ was interesting to design . Apple has had a war on the sidebar for several versions of iTunes and even chemical group playlists in a freestanding section . This creates two major military issue . First , the discoverability and simplicity of switching from song view , artist scene , or a playlist is poor . Second , most users do n’t sleep with you’re able to get behind a song into a play list , since the playlist pane only appears when drag begins . In trying to visually simplify the UI , Apple just made it more complicated . Here , I ’ve made a few change . One is a double - level “ sidebar ” on the left that provides discoverability , speed , and simplicity both in interaction and in visuals . 2nd breaker point – from this blind , I ’m not limited to just my own medicine .
There ’s a clean , simple mini - player , too .
“ I ’ve been wonder why share-out is n’t part of Apple Music . In this concept , my admirer can apportion with me , and I can also check out my friends ’ public play list , ” he say of this screenland designed for sharing within the app , though right now , it is possible to share via email , Messages , and Facebook and Twitter .
He also makes use of a moody base for toil into specific artists ’ discographies . Be sure to oscillate over the upper - go out hand nook of these images and hit the rapid climb release to get a better feeling .
Album purview has a light focus , too : “ When I want record album perspective , it ’s one dog . The sidebar stays and the content gets replace . One click , highly ascertainable , and still visually graceful . ”
Of of course , as we ’ve talk over before , an sovereign designer redesign a pop app or service intend that the ruined product is n’t beholden to the atmospheric pressure of a actual - life production — it ’s an unrealistic exercise , but a very fun one . Ambrosino ’s explanation are concise , his mock - ups are sporting , and his case for split up this horrendous twosome are very compelling . Check out the full mockuphere . [ Andrew Ambrosino ; h / tTechblock ]
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