Play Music An HCI Oriented Evaluation of Googles Default Music Player Interface
This work addresses usability issues for users of a widely used music player app, but it is incremental as it applies existing HCI practices without introducing new methods.
The paper tackled the problem of improving the playlist creation interface in Google Play Music's Android app by applying HCI principles, resulting in suggested enhancements for intuitive navigation and selection to streamline playlist management.
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.