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)
@Zehra_Rajnagarwala, @rauljimenez and I are ready to show the first wireframe of the approach we’re thinking of for the player screen. We’re hoping that the approach will make for a nicer design and makes some new episode features (like transcript) more visible (while accommodating space for all the Podcasting 2.0 stuff we might get in the future).
Before we will turn the wireframes into interactive mock-ups (that we’ll test with end-users), we’d like to show you the wireframe so we can make sure what we foresee is technically feasible.
We’d like to organise this in the week of 14 April. I’ve set up a poll to find us a date and time - hope you’re all willing & able to join!
Pay attention to the time zones - I only bothered to calculate two of them
