I hate the modern designs like this in apps or websites.
Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
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#52Netflix and Amazon are terrible. Want to continue what you were watching? Gonna have to find where we hid that this time, g’luck!
Something funny about Netflix: after they implemented double thumbs up they made the three buttons (two thumps up, one, thumbs down) hidden behind one thumbs up icon and exposed on hover. Next to the My List button. The double thumbs up then is superimposed on the My List button. So if I move my cursor from right to left in order to remove some show from my List I might give it two thumbs up instead.
I wonder why they haven't fixed that already. Even just recording the button clicking sequence alone, they should have more than enough data in which people clicking thumbs up button before immediately unclick it and click 'list' to show that it is a bad design.
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#53A concise explanation: functionalism is secondary to the attention economy for modern media platforms. Hard to advertise in a functional list grid, but yeah like fuck, I’m right there with you. It’s to the point where I’d rather just steal the album off of YouTube. At least there’s an ad-blocker.
Please don't steal off of YouTube, there are better places.
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#54Today everything is focused on making money. The focus on money makes the experience good for the ones that make the money, but for the end user it means everything turns into one giant ad. That's why Spotify uses tiles instead of tables. The tiles are important for the content producer, not for the Spotify user. A tile can scream at you 'Listen to me!', a row in a table cannot do this. It shows that Spotify is makin…
Yep. I wonder, if the balance has gone too far without any checks or balances? A/B testing our way into oblivion. May be, we should do a massive A/B test between 15 year old UI and today's UI. They'd probably have to modify old UIs to add some more images because visuals dominate.
I realize these things probably have commercial implications, but goddamn it feels good to rant.
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#55> Foobar2000? where are you? Do you still have that tattoo on your arm that screams "FUNCTIONALISM"?
F2K is at https://www.foobar2000.org/, it works just as well as ever, and, yes, still has that tattoo. I’m happily using the Mac version on Big Sur.
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#56Netflix and Amazon are terrible. Want to continue what you were watching? Gonna have to find where we hid that this time, g’luck!
Disney is worse. Which itself is unbelievable as Amazon Prime and Netflix set a very low bar.
But Apple TV (the streaming service that I can access on the web, not the hardware smart TV thing) is much worse than Disney. Literally can't find the name or number of the episode that I'm currently watching in order to tell my wife.
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#57This is a big frustration of mine, too. The other is that Spotify is extremely biased towards playlist listening and makes browsing and listening to a library of albums really painful. The good news is that Spotify's SDK and API are actually powerful enough that you can build up an entire alternative interface, which is actually what I recently started doing: https://i.imgur.com/ar7VrYy.png . It's still work in progr…
Looks pretty nice. Is it in a browser wrapper or just on web/built using something else?
Re: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
#58A concise explanation: functionalism is secondary to the attention economy for modern media platforms. Hard to advertise in a functional list grid, but yeah like fuck, I’m right there with you. It’s to the point where I’d rather just steal the album off of YouTube. At least there’s an ad-blocker.
Please don't steal off of YouTube, there are better places.
Suggestions?
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#59It's easy to find bad UX in the industry, and I think that the reason is that it doesn't have to be good. It's hardly ever the differentiator that makes a difference when you choose to subscribe or not. The same could be said about the UX of Google services, etc. Capital flows to acquiring new subscribers and, grudgingly, to retaining old ones.
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#60Dear Spotify, please do not go back to 2001. Thanks.
On a serious note. If all you do is high intent searches (I know exactly the one song/podcast I want), Spotify is not for you. Spotify is about discovery. Stick to iTunes or Winamp or Kazaa or Youtube or anything else that just gives you a list of things. Don't make the product worse because you're using it for something it's not designed around.