Music Software & Interface Design: MuseScore

The solution isn't to put things in preference windows either because even smart users will find that cumbersome. There's an interesting pair of videos (if you have some time) that goes over the UI of two competing music scoring software and why one is bad and the other good. [LINK] [VIDEO]

they actually hired the person behind this video (tantacrul): [VIDEO] It criticize the user interface and experience of various music application. I find it very entertaining yet still informative

If anyone's curious, here are Tantacrul's entertaining videos on MuseScore and designing MuseScore's new font, and the Audacity video from yesterday: [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK]

Obligatory funny video review of MuseScore 3 UI: [VIDEO] Same author also has a funny video on the UI of another music notation program, Sibelius: [LINK]

Tantacrul did one on MuseScore[0] (a music composing program), and ended up getting hired as their head of design[1]. [0]: [VIDEO] [1]: Mentioned in [LINK] , but don't have the exact timestamp

Exciting news! This feels like a Blender 2.8-style project. What's funny about this is that a composer/music YouTuber/UX designer called Tantacrul meticulously roasted MuseScore's UI on YouTube, and the MuseScore team ended up hiring him, leading to this project. The video in question: [VIDEO]

I agree. GUIs are hard! On the other hand, it seems like Open Source has a lack of designers that are willing to contribute. For example, in Tantacrul's critique of MuseScore [0], there's issues highlighted that seem obvious in retrospect, but in Open Source projects, unless there's someone who drives the user experience, it's easy to miss all these small things that add up to signal (whether rightly or wrongly is besides the point) a lack of polish. [0] [VIDEO]

For those out of the loop: Tantacrul is a composer who put together some hilariously scathing UI/UX video reviews for some popular composing software tools out there, including MuseScore [1] [2] [3]. The team developing MuseScore then brought him on as head of design. [1] Sibelius: [LINK] [2] MuseScore: [VIDEO] [3] Dorico: [LINK]