Besides rating and favorites, there’s tagging and color-coding tools for the organization as well. For a useful rating system, I suppose item rating should be set by the user and not by the application based on the frequency of use (this is how Live currently do it). Tempo, Key, and Scale are very helpful in searching for a sample or perfect loop. Sample/Plug-in Type column helps in distinguishing and sorting by the type of search result. The Recent section is a list of all recently used items of any type, tags, folders, plug-ins, samples, presets… The Favorites section on the left side is for the favorite items used frequently. I think that the Arrangement view is very important, and I feel the need to write this also: I didn’t ignore the Arrangement view because I think that it should be removed from Live!Įxpanded Browser should enable easier and more efficient organization of samples, presets, devices, and plug-ins. I’ve ignored requests for the Arrangement view simple because I didn’t have the time to do it. I pulled out the most mentioned features from all 4000 open-ended answer and created the list I’ve used almost as a backlog. The first survey was about what users thought should be fixed and what works fine ( questionnaire results from 350+ Live users). So, I asked Live users about their habits, pain points, and joys.
It can not be purchased/downloaded.įirst questionnaire about Live users’ habits, pain points, and joysĪs with any instrument, everybody has slightly different approach how to play/use a DAW. Believe it or not, I need to write this one (and even make it bold): It’s not a skin/theme.2. I didn’t conduct usability testing to see what actually needs fixing and how users behave (that was way beyond the scope of this project). what users assume they need do not necessarily align with what they really need. Even though very helpful, I didn’t blindly follow what Live users said in surveys I conducted.I didn’t want to introduce a featuritis either. I’ve chosen to implement the new features in my redesigns because I think that’s a good way to show how I think as a designer. I’m not trying to just sell feature ideas.I love current UI, but I also believe that everything can be improved. This is not some kind of replacement of the current design and I don’t claim that it’s better.To make sure I don’t get misunderstood, I feel the need to quickly touch on what this isn’t: Test it to verify everything is going in the right direction.
Redesign it using my design intuition and skills.
The idea here was to collect the information about what Live users thought needs improvement. In addition, I have more than twenty years of experience in making and producing electronic music. My name is Nenad and I’m interaction and interface designer. I did this to showcase my design skills to peers working at Ableton, where I would love to work as a designer. This is my unsolicited redesign of the Ableton Live.