Play Music An HCI Oriented Evaluation of Googles Default Music Player Interface

TL;DR

This paper evaluates Google Play Music's playlist creation interface from an HCI perspective, proposing improvements to enhance navigation and selection for a better user experience.

Contribution

It applies HCI best practices to identify and suggest interface improvements for a popular music app's playlist creation process.

Findings

Improved navigation facilitates easier playlist management

Design recommendations enhance user interaction efficiency

Prototype evaluation shows positive user feedback

Abstract

The work embodied in this paper attempts to suggest a few improvements to the playlist creation task interface of the Google Play Music Android application based on recommended practices encountered in the Human-Computer Interaction discipline. The improvements are largely centered on intuitive navigation and selection actions, in order to facilitate a smoother experience in creating, ordering, and adding to music playlists. The work records the efforts in need-finding, design brainstorming, and prototype design and evaluation. The work was undertaken over a single design life cycle, and is an attempt at applying recommended practices in HCI to a widely used real world application.