Music Apps Research

Spotify (Own Daily Driver)

The First app I’m looking into is Spotify, this is because I use it daily as a my main mean of listening to music.

This app uses a dark main colour with the green highlights that Spotify is known for. Like most apps of the time, it’s layout follows having its navigation at the bottom and its main content (e.g playlists, songs etc) above that.

Apple Music

Though I have never used Apple Music itself, the app itself is much more differently designed from spotify.

It also follows same layout as Spotify but uses a vastly different colour choice, being mostly black and white, but does do colour mixing to album/song to match them. Apple Music is most design to be ‘clean’ in a way, being designed around apples own design style and language.

Soundcloud

Soundcloud is different from Spotify but has some of Apple Music’s design style mixed into its own. Being made with a white and orange colour palette, its trying to keep a clean look but the orange makes it feel more engaging than Apple Music. Its layout of its app it the same of what a music should follow, e.g. playlists, music searching, etc.

Things learnt from exploring these apps

Overall, all these apps will try to make themselves unique but are keeping the same kind of layout from app to app, this fits into the Jakob’s Law, which is good because making a user have to relearn to do something can drive them away from the service. Furthermore, they have their own colour palettes apart from Apple Music, which just uses red for highlighting objects. This has shown me that an app could have no set colour palette but getting to work would be very tough.