So Spotify recently changed from a green heart and a block song button to and + and a - for liking and disliking. What is your opinion?
My personal preference would be to bring back the green heart and make a deep red broken heart.
And I know spotify is proprietary yada yada I don’t care for music streaming. So pls don’t let it be a part of the discussion.
To reference this is an old screenshot I found on the internet.
I don’t use Spotify anymore, because paying means less quality for me. But at first I thought this was a joke, because I couldn’t find the dislike (not that it ever did sth in Spotify)
I see the plus, but where is the minus button you mentioned?
The button likes the song when clicked, it just fills in. You have to go to the menu to get to the minus button
Sorry it was a bad screenshot I changed it to a better one
For context the old one was that one
I see the plus in a circle symbol. What are you adding the track to? Some sort of list?
I don’t see a minus in that screenshot.
Can you point out the minus for grandpa here who can’t see for shit apparently?
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- feels like the clearer icons if I just go on your text description. More of this, less of that. Heart always to me felt too much, like do I really love this song? So I only hearted very few songs, and only blocked even fewer, because that’s also very harsh feeling. So I prefer this, if the UI is good? But I can’t really tell from the image
There is none, I don’t think the screenshots are of the new design OP talks about. I also checked in my app, and I have either a +/- (well I have a + in a circle that adds songs to playlists) nor a 👍 or 👎 or anything.
I think that’s in fact supposed to be the joke, anyways. That Spotify does not have a like/dislike button.
The minus only shows up for recommendations/auto-generated things, to allow for signals that this is not the stuff you want to listen to.
It wouldn’t make sense to have it in for example your liked songs, as those are curated by yourself, instead of being curated algorithmically.
What’s wrong with just a thumbs up and thumbs down?
There are definitely differences. + And - imply addition and subtraction, while 👍👎 imply pleasure and displeasure, or agreement and disagreement. The + and - in this context is quite ambiguous, because it could mean volume up/down, or adding or subtracting the song from a playlist for example. Those would be my first guesses without context I think. Color coding them would help, because it would give more weight to the action, but I think the iconography is still overly ambiguous compared to other options. Source: am professional designer.
