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BBC Sounds (D&AD Brief)
In a brief set to participants of the D&AD New Blood Award, the BBC invited designers to develop a new offering to springboard their recently released radio application, BBC Sounds, to younger people.
'Radio used to be the medium people based their routine around: wake up, breakfast, in the car, etc. Now content comes to you, rather than you going to it. You can now talk to technology, wear it, and carry it around with you.'
Research into the application demonstrated that it had a controversial release. BBC Sounds was intended to succeed another application called iPlayer Radio, which had a strong userbase. These disenfranchised users weren't satisfied with the replaced app, which removed much-loved features, and I imagine these negative reviews would certainly be off-putting to newcomers, and potentially many of their intended target audience for this brief.
For this reason, I set out to design a hypothetical rework of the current BBC Sounds application, that was not only user-friendly, but well-received by previous critics.
The redesign takes into account many of the major criticisms of the current application, as well as improvements which I sought myself. The scroll wheel on the main screen is intuitive, and the interface is far friendly for seeing what you're currently listening to, as well as saving tracks you enjoy, a function currently unavailable in the app.
Another highly requested feature - a Dark Mode.
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Example screenshots of the interface.
This project was a really fun initial foray into UI design; I had to consider efficiency in traveling between pages, as well as finger travel and the overall user experience.
Updated iconset, using original designs.