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resonatecoop / mobile

A mobile app for playing music on Resonate, an open source music streaming co-op; built with TypeScript and React Native
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Design direction? Design system? Willing to volunteer. #51

Open inlinecoder opened 10 months ago

inlinecoder commented 10 months ago

Hello guys 👋,

First off wanted to share my appreciation for what you've been doing! I believe that's the platform we music lovers and music owners need. I do hope the project succeeds.

I've found Resonatecoop not long ago, after having thoughts of creating a replacement for Bandcamp, as it was recently purchased by Epic. I suspect it's quite easy to predict what's gonna happen to Bandcamp now. Their fate is no different if they would've been purchased by Amazon.

I always felt like Bandcamps' design is far from perfect. Mb ok for 2007. YouTube Music is good, but in terms of design it's far from perfect as well, as they're trying to push the Material Design agenda on iOS and tvOS, which is '👎'. However, their algorithm is up to my liking (I don't listen to pop-music). Spotify is another offender in my (design) list, especially on tvOS. Tidal, Amazon... I don't use them.

So, it's now easy to guess, I'm talking design and the design topic is one of the reasons why I'm here today.

I've checked the product roadmap and there's nothing (or almost nothing, if I missed anything) re to design and I was curious if you need help with that. I'm willing to volunteer to take care of that stuff: stories, design system, visuals, etc.

In case there're no dev resources to implement separate views for each major platform: iOS, tvOS, Android (Material U or Material Design), it's possible to come up with something very neutral yet streamlined with familiar design patterns, which (all) platforms have in common.

Without the design system, it's gonna be really hard to move forward and to agree on some things, etc. I don't wanna start a lection about design systems and their importance.

If that's something that resonates (pun intended) with you, I can share more details on who am I, what I do and what I've been doing as a front-end engineer and product designer for many years.

Please let me know what you think.

inlinecoder commented 10 months ago

Oops... https://community.resonate.coop/t/addressing-our-current-crisis-community-input-needed/3605/7

So umm... Is it still active?

simonv3 commented 10 months ago

I haven't heard anything from Resonate for a while. But you could maybe checkout mirlo? https://mirlo.space/

inlinecoder commented 10 months ago

@simonv3 , oh.. I see :( To bad. Thanks for sharing another platform, I'll check them out 🤝

peteratomic commented 10 months ago

hi @inlinecoder your offer is wonderful and very much needed. There is a small group convening to go through a sort of "re-founding" process after an unfortunate conflict arose in the communicate, I think mostly due to asynchronous coordination problems.

The best thing to do is join the community forums as that is where new announcements and coordination will happen: https://community.resonate.coop/

(You are correct that everything is volunteer driven at the moment, so please be patient as things evolve. We're in a major transition with the governing board and other administrative processes that are a bit slow-going, mostly owing to the fact that many of the remaining people are personally "stretched thin" at the moment.)