New logo: Explanations 💜

This logo change is a huge mistake!

The new redesign; yes its horrible.

What really pisses me off, is that so far I have seen 0 reaction of ANY Deezer staff to the (valid) complaints of the UI redesign and loss of functionality on some parts as well.

Let me remind you, Deezer:

I myself, and many other pay good money for your service. We are active, paying users.

Not adressing the valid complaints of an already established and paying customer base is just wrong.

By now I expected at least one of two things happening:

1. An apology and acknowledgement of the fact you messed up and will fix it.
2. A message stating you stand by it and anyone that doesnt like it is free to leave.

I certainly hope you got the balls to do one of these moves.

If you gonna go for option 3 (just stay silent and hope people will “forget and accept” ,

I will not be renewing my subscription for sure.

No one, literally NO ONE asked for a professional company with professional logo to “reinvent” their identity.

Your new logo looks like a gay dating app, the font is straight up ripped from Fortnite, the color scheme stolen from Twitch and your artwork is of the same cheap wannabe quirky and “inclusive” drawings/images are on the level of YoutTube/Dating app bad.

FRIENDLY REMINDER DEEZER:

I pay for MUSIC, not to feed an agenda, personal satisfaction of some UI designer or a power trip of some CEO that lost all touch with what made people choose Deezer in the first place.

How to fix this?

Can’t go on a rant without offering a legit solution in my opinion.

1.revert changes,  make this “theme” optional

2.send out a questionare to your active userbase with a simple yes/no question: does Deezer need the new UI/Identity change

3.ask people what they REALLY want to see improved, and start DOING IT.

i have seen a ton of legit suggestions/implementations that can make Deezer the best out there.

long story short:

Waiting for an official reply and any sign of some staff member that they give a f about their (paying) users.

If not seriously addressed I know one thing for sure, I wont be giving Deezer my money when my subscribtion ends. there are (cheaper) alternatives and the differences between the competetion and Deezer gets smaller everytime; hell the competition has an edge now since they don’t have such a horrendous UI.

/rant

Yeah agree with you. Part of the inclusiveness. But it can’t be a mistake, it worked for Bud lite 😆. 

FAILURE is the only word that comes to my mind if I had to summarize what I feel looking at this botched interface.

How is it even possible to end up with such a badly-thought user interface? So far, I have barely seen anyone liking these new changes. Deezer made one big UI mistake and it’s not like it’s my daily business dealing with UX and ergonomic aspects: never ever ever ever remove working and appreciated features, never! And if you are stubborn and still want to remove them, you must offer a solid and viable alternative that is very well-thought and fail-proof against 95% of your users. They failed on all these aspects.

I won’t even go to far on the purplish theme and the childish font being used (I am a boomer and discovered it’s very close to the font in Fortnite). The logo is ridiculous, it’s not a dating app, I’m in my forties and look like I’m hanging on Tinder looking for Spring Break friends that could be my kids. Worse: I have the web application being set as the first bookmark entry in the top bar in Chrome, so I have a purple heart all the time being displayed in my browser. I am sometimes screen-sharing things with my customers, probable reaction “hey he’s looking for girls? I thought he was married”. THANKS

The design team should have provided a few colors to pick and replace that purple (trying to Twitch us?) which is hurting my eyes, such highly-saturated color that is enforced without any alternative is a good way to induce rejection in your (male) user base. I am not even sure girls are appreciating it either. The wavy thing is not sufficient to convey anything about music, it does not look like a soundwave, rather some scrambled content... When music is being played and you hover over the song, you have a poor circle-like thing that does not mean anything. Why replace that? Keep the well-proven “square” that is meaning “stop” for anybody on this earth who ever used an audio device.

Was this thing even probed by applying it first to a set of users to get some feedbacks? Microsoft at least gives you the option to try the “new” while keeping the “old”. 

Yes, I'm looking at alternatives too

Man, this new design looks really ugly. I wish they would spend some time fixing the horrific casting, but no … they decided to make everything ugly instead. :(

Deeply disappointed.

It’s horrible, I don’t want a “heart” anywhere on my desktop, mobile. I don’t want anything that could bring confusion with a dating app or a porn app! Even porn app icons are more pro than this ridiculous musical blob. They should have worked on something to modernize the equalizer icon or somehow linked to it, not come up with a Tinder replacement mixed with Twitch colors.

Wondering if this interface was designed in San Francisco? I am not gender-fluid with blue hairs, I do not have weird pronouns and I don’t read books about gender theory. I am a right-wing boomer and can’t stand this interface that smells like woke spirit.

PLEASE REMOVE OR I WILL CANCEL MY PAID SUBSCRIPTION !!!

Considering switching to another musical app here. Seriously, they must fix that urgently.

Bring the old logo back, please. New one is awful!