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Re:Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can b... by mavamaarten on Monday April 08, 2024 @01:52AM (#39966599)
Their new UX for liking a track and adding it to playlists is also awful. It's so hilariously bad that I wonder if they ever did user testing.

Say you want to like a track and then add it to a playlist. It used to be a heart icon and a plus icon. Now they combined everything into a plus, but depending on your current context it either adds it to an existing playlist or to your liked music. Also, if a track is already liked I would expect to "unlike" it when clicking the now green plus icon. But no they had to make it show a context menu because they combined liking and adding to playlists. It's just so confusing, and the previous UX worked fine and was clear for everyone.

Re:Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can b... by rebolek on Monday April 08, 2024 @02:50AM (#39966923)
I think you're right no one tested the plus icon. Because if someone did, then they would notice that in the bottom bar, there's [-] [+] but in the playlist, it's reversed, [+] [-]. What a stupid idea, why it's not consistent?