Apple Music UI to go grayscale, add better support for lyrics - report
Apple is said to be working on a vast overhaul of its up-and-coming music streaming service, one that will reportedly include a new monochromatic user interface and a streamlined experience for users who prefer to read lyrics.
The company is said to have chosen a black-and-white color scheme for the application's controls and framework, moving away from the more playful design that includes heavy use of color and translucency, according to 9to5Mac. This would be a big step for Apple, as it would represent a fundamental departure from the "adaptive" design language introduced with iOS 7.
Apple won't eschew color entirely, however, opting to make album art a larger and overall more impactful part of the experience.
Discoverability is believed to be a primary goal for Apple, and in that vein the company is thought to be planning major updates for the "For You" and "New" tabs. In the latter's case, those changes will likely include a name change -- to "Browse" -- and a new information architecture to make it easier to find various functions.
Also said to be part of the revamp is a wider application of Apple's San Francisco font. The in-house typeface will play a bigger role in defining hierarchy and navigation.
In addition to the visual overhaul, Apple is expected to reveal an expansion to its Beats 1 streaming radio service at its Worldwide Developers Conference next month. The new design and functionality could be propped up by a "marketing blitz" designed to accelerate Apple Music's already impressive growth.
The company is said to have chosen a black-and-white color scheme for the application's controls and framework, moving away from the more playful design that includes heavy use of color and translucency, according to 9to5Mac. This would be a big step for Apple, as it would represent a fundamental departure from the "adaptive" design language introduced with iOS 7.
Apple won't eschew color entirely, however, opting to make album art a larger and overall more impactful part of the experience.
Discoverability is believed to be a primary goal for Apple, and in that vein the company is thought to be planning major updates for the "For You" and "New" tabs. In the latter's case, those changes will likely include a name change -- to "Browse" -- and a new information architecture to make it easier to find various functions.
Also said to be part of the revamp is a wider application of Apple's San Francisco font. The in-house typeface will play a bigger role in defining hierarchy and navigation.
In addition to the visual overhaul, Apple is expected to reveal an expansion to its Beats 1 streaming radio service at its Worldwide Developers Conference next month. The new design and functionality could be propped up by a "marketing blitz" designed to accelerate Apple Music's already impressive growth.
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on a on a more serious note: what is meant by more grey/less color? Replacing the red by grey? I hope they keep the way how the artwork spawns the background and font colors.
Edit: ah, according to 9to5 this is exactly part of the plan. Pity.
If they don't make any updates on Connect they should just get it rid of it. There's nothing social about it whatsoever.
Connect is useless.
They should focus on it being fast and easy. Make me feel I have easy control over my music. Make it simple and magical as the first iPod was.
Streaming services try too much.
I need a recently played history, to go back to what I've been listening lately. Quick access to search (a search that "knows what I mean"). Easy add/delete artists/songs/albums. Clear UI. Big play/pause button. Big scrub.
Its like Apple let the Beats people dictate the Music direction to Apple instead of vice versa.
Apple is the gold standard for UI/UX.
MAKE beats sit in the corner and think about what it's done.
And be give us back the clean and easy to use UI that wasn't broken to begin with.
Apple could reinstate the fine grain control they used to have with the iPod by replacing its clumsy slider with a virtual scroll wheel. It'd be a great use of 3D touch.
>:x
- No repeat
- Repeat all
- Repeat one (current song)
"Once you go white..."?
-Moody Blues, "Nights in White Satin"
- Find music
- Play music
Add color to the things I need to do and get rid of the transparency. It doesn't ground me to where I came from, it just confuses my occipital lobe.