Sorry if you saw this on Reddit already, but I wanted to post my concept design for Xbox Music on Windows Phone here as well.
I decided to take a few minutes and make a quick concept design for Xbox Music on Windows Phone. I did this pretty quick, so it is not perfect.
I figured since we are all quite disappointed by the state of the current app, it wouldn't hurt to discuss some changes. I know many of the complaints are not design-related, but there are still plenty of improvements that could be made in this area. I think the overall design of the app is pretty good, so I kept it very similar with a few tweaks. I have re-designed the now playing screen and the playlist.
Here is the now playing section: http://i.imgur.com/pTvVSQz.jpg
Here is the playlist section: http://i.imgur.com/5PRyGPL.png
Total list of changes made to current state of Xbox Music:
? Xbox Music and now playing headlines are much smaller
? Moved the currently playing track to the top
? Added album name
? Made the album art much larger
? Added a slider to the track position (similar to how it looks on the Windows 8 Xbox Music app)
? User's accent color would be used for the slider and for activated shuffle/repeat as well as the currently playing track in the playlist view
? Increased the size of the track controls and added shuffle/repeat to the right of them rather than to the right of the album art.
? Re-designed the playlist and changed how it's accessed from Now Playing. In my design, you would be able to scroll this up to see the entire upcoming playlist, instead of tapping the current playlist icon. As you scrolled the playlist up, the picture background of the now playing would fade to black. Initially, the next song up would display at the top, but you would be able to scroll back to current and previous tracks like shown in my mock-up.
One of the biggest requests was the ability to swipe to change tracks like it used to be on Windows Phone. I believe this would work with my design depending where you swipe from, but I'd like it to be an option as people might try to pan over to the collection section and change the song by accident.
I decided to take a few minutes and make a quick concept design for Xbox Music on Windows Phone. I did this pretty quick, so it is not perfect.
I figured since we are all quite disappointed by the state of the current app, it wouldn't hurt to discuss some changes. I know many of the complaints are not design-related, but there are still plenty of improvements that could be made in this area. I think the overall design of the app is pretty good, so I kept it very similar with a few tweaks. I have re-designed the now playing screen and the playlist.
Here is the now playing section: http://i.imgur.com/pTvVSQz.jpg
Here is the playlist section: http://i.imgur.com/5PRyGPL.png
Total list of changes made to current state of Xbox Music:
? Xbox Music and now playing headlines are much smaller
? Moved the currently playing track to the top
? Added album name
? Made the album art much larger
? Added a slider to the track position (similar to how it looks on the Windows 8 Xbox Music app)
? User's accent color would be used for the slider and for activated shuffle/repeat as well as the currently playing track in the playlist view
? Increased the size of the track controls and added shuffle/repeat to the right of them rather than to the right of the album art.
? Re-designed the playlist and changed how it's accessed from Now Playing. In my design, you would be able to scroll this up to see the entire upcoming playlist, instead of tapping the current playlist icon. As you scrolled the playlist up, the picture background of the now playing would fade to black. Initially, the next song up would display at the top, but you would be able to scroll back to current and previous tracks like shown in my mock-up.
One of the biggest requests was the ability to swipe to change tracks like it used to be on Windows Phone. I believe this would work with my design depending where you swipe from, but I'd like it to be an option as people might try to pan over to the collection section and change the song by accident.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram