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Nice beta. Nice functionality. I could see using this while I work at my desk. I will bookmark it. I always find the most value in detailed critical feedbac
by LPTS 19y ago
Nice beta. Nice functionality. I could see using this while I work at my desk. I will bookmark it.
I always find the most value in detailed critical feedback. In that spirit:
There is a lot of subtle visual dissonance on your website. It looks like you put some effort into the design, but it fails because of small details. It's a shame to have a promising functionality masked with so much ugly.
The blue yellow and pink text is ugly. It draws the eye away from your app. It's hard for me to switch between reading text of different colors. When I look at those bright colors, your app and the light green text just fades into the background. I think the green and orange are nice cool colors. Stick with cool colors like that. Subtle is better.
Do you want round corners or square corners? I think you should round them all to soften the page. You are locked into squares for the album covers, but all square is too aggressive, so you should make the rounding more subtle. You have giant rounding that is dissonant with os x and album cavers and half the site. Use tiny little rounding so it blends with the OS X apps and the square corners on the album cover. Again, subtle. I shouldn't notice corners, here I do.
Your growl clone belongs top right of window, not bottom right.
It shouldn't beep and say stupid things. We are listening to music and beeps suck if you are listening. They are not 'fun' just superfluous. Assume your audience is more intelligent then the mtv crowd. Real listening requires focused attention and the beeps are insulting to the music of the artists you host. It's not consistent with the goal of allowing people to discover awesome songs, because a lot of awesome songs require careful listening. Listening to a great song with those interruptions is like looking at a van gogh with kids stickers on it. Let your artists control 100% of the audio experience from your site. Slightly shaking the growl would be an acceptable alternative.
Incidentally, I heard many really kick ass songs.
My impression of the site is positive. The engine is good, it's functionality is good, it's design was overall good, but details were weak despite honest effort, and it's music is good. Hire a geek with a minimalist aesthetic to fix your designs small details.
I'm looking forward to an iPhone app of this.
Aside from this starting a business stuff, I'm a musician, and I would love for a site like this to replace MySpace as the default for musicians.