![]() If you forget this, you can always tap a row and it’ll bounce to indicate you can pull it - like Apple’s home screen Camera button. In Party Monster you pull a song one way to play, and the other way to ditch an upcoming song. Clear’s behaviour is more like a sideways pull-to-trigger behaviour, and it’s a joy to use. A lot of swipe-to-act implementations suck because they either don’t give enough feedback that you’re on the right track (Tweetbot’s swipe on tweets is like this) or they reveal more buttons, making the task very slow. And so, we adopted Clear.app’s delightful pull-to-act approach. ![]() For a personal music player you often skip many times in a row, but for a DJ player like this you usually jump to a specific other song, and almost never go backwards. We managed to rid ourselves of almost every button, including play, pause, and skip. From there, we trim the fat and stir in some unicorn dust. The starting point is iTunes’ Party Shuffle behaviour: fill the list of songs from a playlist, and allow the user to queue more songs below the play head. “What if we take out reordering songs?” “What if there’s no explicit skip button?” “Is audio playback strictly necessary? Okay, fine.” Well, more often I pitch removing things. A lot of my sketching time is actually spent going back and forth with the team, pitching things. I’ll usually sketch a couple dozen versions of an app’s main screen, and roughly sketch some of the other screens. I’m not sure, but I suspect this is an awesome name.Īlmost immediately, I get to paper sketching. Another awesome use case is road trips, with the passenger curating the tunes.įor now, we’re calling it Party Monster. As a matter of fact, it could serve as a drop-in replacement for WeddingDJ for some weddings. It would shine brightest at a party, where curation and avoiding a sudden stop is most important. So what we want is a simple queuing music player that crossfades and is very quick to operate. I want to queue up a few songs, and then let it ride. I want to skip or pause this song, but have it fade the transition. I want to look through what’s coming up, and veto certain songs. ![]() I want to hear a certain song, and then continue a certain playlist. There are a ton of things the default iOS music player can’t do well: ![]() The more we discussed this feature though, the more we wanted it as just a standalone app. Queuing, skipping, and reordering songs needs to be extremely easy to use, so you can get back to the party and not accidentally put everything to a screeching halt. In v2 of our Wedding DJ app, we really want great request management. For this year’s new app, I’m going to share the process, hopefully getting some good feedback along the way. Steam Clock traditionally keeps its products under wraps until they’re ready to buy. ![]()
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