We’ll keep them on the home page, but I believe it makes more sense to put the tabs and chords for the user to look up first.Ī. The shots-which are clips of people playing music-are a neat addition, though I feel they’re given too much priority. I come to the app to learn to play music, not to see other people play. It’s a small change, but one that will improve things a lot, I feel. Some of the text is small on the app, and I think that headers could stand out better. I’m going to see if I can make that a bit easier to navigate. I think that while the Ultimate Guitar app does a lot well, it can be a bit cluttered. With that figured out, I’d like to go over the objectives for this redesign: So you’ll notice a slight change in screen size between the original and redesign. This is a redesign, not a change to the structure of the app or its tools.Īs a side-note, I took the photos of the current app on my phone, which has a differently sized screen than the most common mobile screen resolutions. For example, I shouldn’t remove key functionalities or add major new components. The content should remain pretty much the same, and I should use existing structures as a reference to build anything new that needs to be created. Similar to the prior note, I shouldn’t make any massive changes. At the end of the project it should still look like an Ultimate Guitar app. By this I’m referring to the color palette, fonts, and general aesthetic of the application. To make sure I stay on track, I always set a few ground rules alongside the objectives: Additionally, since these are projects I do as thought experiments on the side of my actual work, I can never go as in depth with the user testing and research as I would normally. I never want to lose sight of the application as it currently is, since it was built that way for a reason.

So, I suppose I’m going to redesign a few screens. The home screen doesn’t have much of interest to me-somebody looking for chords and tabs-which is what I assume (based on absolutely no testing at all) the average user is actually interested in. That said, some of the app’s screens feel a bit cluttered and hard to read. Overall, it’s a great tool with a small collection of helpful additions like a tuner and interactive chord library for guitars. A while back they also added a way to link the app with Spotify, so I can click a button and instantly search for tabs/chords to the song I’m currently listening to. I found Ultimate Guitar and its mobile app extremely helpful for finding songs to play. Nothing too impressive, but enough to play some fun songs. A few years ago I taught myself how to play some basic guitar, bass, and ukulele.

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