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The Overcast Redesign: Part One

6 pointsby robbiet480about 3 years ago

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joshstrangeabout 3 years ago
Yikes. I love Overcast and regularly recommend it but I feel like that new playlist UI (at the top of the home page) sticks out like a sore thumb. I&#x27;m sure it will grow on me but it just don&#x27;t fit with the rest of the UI IMHO.<p>The playlists feel out of place and their UI isn&#x27;t reflected anywhere else in the design, as in no other element has that pill-shape&#x2F;high-border-radius and&#x2F;or playful colors (aside from the new tint-colors for playback controls. The rest of the changes are fine but and I&#x27;ll admit that the old playlist list was boring&#x2F;plain but this could have been fixed by just adding an icon or a composite icon of some of the podcast art contained in the playlist.<p>At the end of the day it doesn&#x27;t really matter much since I never spend more than a minute or two looking at Overcast UI, I hit play and then lock my phone or go do something else.