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HermesApp / Hermes

Compact macOS Pandora client that doesn’t use Flash

http://hermesapp.org/

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Hermes UI Resign #228

Open aahung opened 9 years ago

aahung commented 9 years ago

What do you think the UI change to something similar to this (based on iTunes mini player), a little simpler, or borrow something from Pandora app on iPhone. I think:

the current one has too many buttons on the top with same level,
and the link (the three arrows) doesn't convey the right information, it they are links they may need to looks like links.
And, the album image's size varies, which make sometimes the progress bar too far away and too wide.
In most cases, people use the system wide volume control instead of app one, maybe this slider should hide like iTunes.

hermes_design based on iTunes mini player

winny- commented 9 years ago

Earlier today, I was actually thinking about some baby steps in this direction:

Remove ZZZ (Tired of song) from default toolbar
Remove the arrow icons and replace with an circular icon with an "i" for info, and only show the icon when hovered over.

I really like your suggestions. The UI feels a complex, but has worked well thus far, and now it's time for a change to catch up with Mac OS X's aesthetic changes.

aahung commented 9 years ago

Yep, the ZZZ button is not presented in current Pandora Web app. Why not just place the buttons as this, users already familiar with it. screen shot 2015-05-02 at 1 35 00 pm And whole like this: hermes_design

aahung commented 9 years ago

I think stations and histories panel can be placed like this:

both using same panel and use a tab switch to navigate between them.
(idea from Pandora iPhone App) scroll horizontally on album picture to see history, the station panel stays below.

hermes_mocking

nriley commented 8 years ago

I did make the arrows only appear on mouse-over, which looks quite a lot less cluttered. The full UI redesign will have to wait for someone who has an order of magnitude more free time than I do, I think.

nriley commented 8 years ago

Did a bit more cleanup for 1.3.0 — made the progress bar not appear as if you can drag it; made colors entirely consistent with iTunes; removed some lines and tightened up the spacing a bit. Something I'd love to do (not sure how hard it'd be; placing stuff into the title bar has recently become better supported) would be to turn the window title into a station popup, that way you didn't have to show the drawer to switch stations.