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Design is just a part of a product. If this is your first product that you built from the ground up, then pat yourself on the back. Great design is such a deep

by pothibo 12y ago

Design is just a part of a product. If this is your first product that you built from the ground up, then pat yourself on the back. Great design is such a deep field. Your article seems to mention design as aesthetic. It's certainly a part of it but it's not the biggest. Design is choice. Everything in your screenshot are choices that you took, explicitly or implicitly. Looking at your website (aurous.me), I see that what you present is quite far from the screenshot. Not in term of aesthetic but in term of design choices. You seem to add a lot of popup. Why did you add those? Can't you have only 1 step, like you show? You don't need to fit every use case. Restrictive path is better and it's been proven times and times again. You have a table with many columns. Are those necessary? If you focus on listening music, I don't think knowing the date added, length of the song or the user means a lot. Here's a few suggestions that are design-focus: - For every song in the playlist, a suggestion to replace it. Often I check the upcoming song and know right there I'm not in the mood for some song that are upcoming. Being able to swap with a suggestion would keep the flow of the song and your app would do the heavy lifting of suggesting before I realize I want to change the song - Is your search a main feature? Then it shouldn't be a popup always there, ready for someone to input data.

codeusasoft 12y ago
Hey thanks for the reply. The reason for many popups is for multi taskers, the ability to copy and paste links into a playlist builder that is its own windows without interrupting the flow of playing songs currently was the main reason for this. Also the same thing for importing, separating sub features from the main application as utility widgets. As for the columns here is the reasoning >Date added Playlist subscriptions are coming, so knowing when a song was added to a playlist can help you know how current that version might be; bands or artist can re-release mastered versions of older songs. So its important to know when the playlist was last changed for that song. >length You can sort it from shortest to highest, allowing it to play in that order >user Soon you'll be able to login on your own account or subscribe from others, people will be able to fork other peoples playlist to edit them, its mainly just for credit so you know who put effort into building a nice playlist. I do agree for searching though, I will refine it to be on main display not as a popup and replace the main table where loaded playlist are. As for suggestions, when out of focus the app will display a popup showing you whats next, should I add this feature to that popup?

by pothibo 12y ago

codeusasoft 12y ago

Hey thanks for the reply. The reason for many popups is for multi taskers, the ability to copy and paste links into a playlist builder that is its own windows without interrupting the flow of playing songs currently was the main reason for this. Also the same thing for importing, separating sub features from the main application as utility widgets. As for the columns here is the reasoning >Date added Playlist subscriptions are coming, so knowing when a song was added to a playlist can help you know how current that version might be; bands or artist can re-release mastered versions of older songs. So its important to know when the playlist was last changed for that song. >length You can sort it from shortest to highest, allowing it to play in that order >user Soon you'll be able to login on your own account or subscribe from others, people will be able to fork other peoples playlist to edit them, its mainly just for credit so you know who put effort into building a nice playlist. I do agree for searching though, I will refine it to be on main display not as a popup and replace the main table where loaded playlist are. As for suggestions, when out of focus the app will display a popup showing you whats next, should I add this feature to that popup?