Apple Podcasts

Podcast app redesign

The Apple Podcasts app has significant issues with how information is organized. I worked with a group to reorganize and reskin the app to better serve its user base.

This was a group project and while everyone was involved with the work, the responsibilities that were primarily mine were:

The personas
The task flow
The survey
The UI flow
The wireframes
The visual style and application. This included applying Apple IOS design standards and creating our own imagery that fit in with the Apple apps ecosystem.
The final slide deck presentation design
The video presentation editing

First, we needed to establish if our app even needed redesigning and if so, what changes needed to be made. We conducted several research methods to help us out. Our methods included:

A heuristic analysis
A task flow analysis
A competitor analysis
Persona creation
A literature review
User interviews
A survey
An error analysis

Once we had our prototype we did more user interviews and conducted a/b testing. Through our research, we concluded that Apple Podcasts was lacking in two areas in particular. First, there were several features and settings that were common in competitor apps that Apple Podcasts was missing. Second, the app was difficult to navigate, there were sections that were unclear about their purpose and settings that were difficult to find. These issues were brought up often in our research both empirically and anecdotally. This was our focus moving forward. As seen on the right, we went through several versions of our app, with a focus on initial app organization. (All of the sketches and the wireflow on the dark grey background are mine.)

Although we did make some aesthetic changes to create more visual interest and to bring Apple Podcasts’ branding into the app’s interface, most of our work went into restructuring the app. There were several important settings that were difficult for users to find during our testing that we made more accessible. We also added features such as the trim silences option and in-app episode sorting that are common in other podcast apps. One example of the work we did was our restructuring of the settings. In the existing app, the settings were in three separate places, one not even in the app, and in our redesign, we consolidated the settings all into one place.

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