Comments on: Last.fm new interface launches, gets smashed

By: Svelon

Svelon — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:22:43 +0000

What you designers don’t seem to understand is that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. If a user learns a way to get things done -even if it is hard- then why change?

By: Sugar

Sugar — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:44:25 +0000

@noemie
I’m sure people will cope with that change. Since they’re highly adaptive and such.

People have gotten used to using totally unusable and counter-intuitive stuff for years, and they won’t get used to using a new, cleaner Last.gm? Puhlease.

@jimeh
Oh you’re just an iPhone showoff

By: stelios

stelios — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:46:26 +0000

omg when did that happen?
I’ll have to wander around a bit more to get the hang of it. looks good.we’ll see in time

By: noemie

noemie — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:04:32 +0000

well, i think it sucks. it looks very very commercial. like it’s the social network of iTunes or something. And as a marketing move, they did it really wrong. they should have done like yahoo! when they launched the beta version of y!mail.,. we should have had an option to try out the beta version and not have it imposed.

it’s a simple marketing rule., for god’s sake! if you shock your consumers, you might as well be prepared to lose some of them.

By: infowonders

infowonders — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:19:24 +0000

At last! I thought I was the only one who likes the new last.fm design.I couldn’t find anything for the first ten minutes, that’s true, but now I can navigate much more faster!

By: jimeh

jimeh — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:21:11 +0000

I must admit that i didn’t like the new interface when I got beta access to it. Thankfully they’ve fixed my biggest complaint, the old plain and ugly header.

Aside from that it did make me feel a bit like was on some myspace clone, but they’ve seemingly managed to get rid of that feeling with minor tweaks and enhacements here and there

Altho, I’ve so far only used the final design on an iPhone. So I’ll see what I think of it once I get a chance to check it out on a desktop machine… lol

By: Dimitris Giotas

Dimitris Giotas — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:58:46 +0000

I haven’t used last.fm. I always knew it’s existence but I never got my hands on it.

But from what I can understand from the user comments is that the people want the old layout back because they got used to it. I don’t know if the new layout is a big change from the old one, but a change is always a change and it needs some time to get used to it.

By: Antonis

Antonis — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:46:54 +0000

I haven’t yet had the chance to fully explore the new site, but from what I’ve seen up to now, I really like! It’s definitely a cleaner look and that for me is a huge plus.