When the new @Rdio launched, I complained that it was too much like Spotify.
New @Rdio is beautiful, but it’s a shame that it’s so much less unique than Spotify. They copied so much / everything.
— Brenden Mulligan (@mulligan) March 13, 2012
Lead Rdio designer Wilson Miner replied:
@mulligan We spent a lot of time with it. We made what we felt were the right choices for the experience. Sometimes patterns emerge.
— Wilson Miner (@wilsonminer) March 13, 2012
After using the new UX for a few weeks, Wilson is right. It’s a great new experience. Wilson and his team did an excellent job with the new version. It’s great, and there are lots of subtle, delightful surprises throughout the UI. That are far ahead of Spotify.
Wilson, sorry for being a jerk! :)
Chill, learn to count your clicks
I promise this will be quick. I just have one little UX annoyance to point out. It won’t be quite as long or detailed as last time.
There’s a new app in town called Chill. It’s seeing some impressive growth and lots of excitement. Heavily (heavily) inspired by Pinterest, it’s a site where you can post videos that you like for your friends to see, and re-post videos friends have posted, etc.. It’s fun. Well designed, etc…
But there is one small detail in their emails that unfortunately makes Chill, well.. an asshole. In the emails sent for new follower notifications, it says this:
Read the message in the bottom right. “Want to change your email settings? Change them with one click”. One click. But, when you click that link (which in my opinion counts as the one click), you are directed to this page:
BAH! Look at all that crap I’m subscribed to!
Try to find the “Unsubscribe from all” or “Deselect all” button. Nope, not there. In order to avoid Chill’s email overload, I need to uncheck every box. Turning “one click” into “eight clicks”. Very annoying on a mobile device, and in general.
Chill, fixing this is very simple. Just add a big, pink “Unsubscribe from All” button next to Save Settings and change your email to stay “Want to change your email settings? Quickly change them here”. Done.
Or even better, don’t auto-subscribe me to all this in the first place.
And I’d also do what Ethan suggests:
hey @chill people: read this please - bagcheck.com/blog/52-reduci…
— Ethan Kaplan (@ethank) January 18, 2012
Hey @ChillLive, really: unidirectional follows should not default to email notification. Really, I mean it.
— Ethan Kaplan (@ethank) January 20, 2012
