Swiping is extra; should be additional to UI (for discoverability)
Ideally, swipe action should be hinted by content. If not, at least by icons or text (e.g. tabs)
When navigating with 1 hand, key actions should be within reach of thumb, and navigating should be possible
Four navigational approaches:
Swipe up (transcript)/left (description)/right (chapters), as per User feedback: swipe navigation from player screen (2.3 beta) → No. You don’t have a preview of what screen will come up, and only on bottom you can show a preview of the content.
One long screen with blocks that allow to navigate to sub-screens, as Spotify does → No. Looks cool, but you don’t have direct ways to jumpt to relevant screen (always have to scroll vertically)
Tabs on top & actions buttons on bottom, swiping left-right switches between tabs, swiping up opens special screen (e.g. queue). Like Podcast Addict does, and as ByteHamster suggested. → Can be an option
Tabs on the very bottom, action buttons just above (still below main player buttons), swiping up opens the tabs, swiping left-right can be used for chapter navigation (if present for episode). → Can be an option
We’ll further explore the last two by making wireframes for them.
Alongside this work, we can create a survey to ask input from users:
What do you expect to happen when you swipe left or right?
jump chapters
jump episodes
jump functional screens
Which actions do you expect to use most often? (sort most → least)
[list of actions]
Which screens do you expect to use most often? (sort most → least)