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New logo: Explanations 💜

  • 10 November 2023
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New logo: Explanations 💜
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After the announcement of the new logo and the new identity of Deezer, we took the time to read all your comments and feedback in order to address your concerns and understand your feelings


Opinions are very divided and several details were pointed out, including one that came up quite often: Why did you choose a heart 💜?
One comment cited there is a more distant connection to music compared to the old logo

 

The beating purple heart simply represents love and passion for music. The shapes of the logo vary to signify musical rhythms. Its movement and pulsing quality directly reflect the essence of music and the human response to the listening experience, much like a heartbeat.
 


Another question was “why did you decide to change everything/what is the purpose of this new identity?”

Deezer helps you “be and belong,” going beyond streaming to empower fans, artists and partners to express themselves and connect through our products and services.

Refreshing our visual identity is essential as we enter this new era for Deezer. This allows us to connect emotionally with music fans, artists and strategists through visual cues that let people know that with Deezer they can experience music, not just listen to it.
 

The choice to have prioritised this change was not the best, it would have been good to strengthen the user experience rather than degrade it.

Satisfying our users experience is indeed crucial. Development and modification choices can be complex, which means that the change itself was so significant that some bugs crept in during this transition. All have been flagged by our developers and technicians, who are already fixing these errors.

 

The identity change will be present in all future app updates. We hope you will adopt the new design and enjoy the new Deezer experience.

We adopt this new identity with pride, and although not everyone likes it yet, we still hope to find a place in your hearts 💜.

 

 

 


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Just updated the app to a rather generic heart shape (I can live with that) but where is the album duration gone? I used to slide the album cover to see it, but I can't find it anywhere now. 

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I’m sorry, but the new logo is awful. Does not represent a music app, but looks like a dating app for a specific demographic. Please let us choose which logo to use.

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Exactly as paetkaa says, I migrated from Spotify to Deezer specifically because at the time Spotify’s UI was very bad and Deezer’s was super clean and simple. Now it’s a cartoonish bright purple mess that’s harder to navigate and look at and read. At least if the purple could be changed to some muted color, the red was fine. Title font looks childish, logo looks like a dating app and the whole branding is lost. Now it’s like any other generic app...

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I agree with a lot of the opinions here but the one that strikes me the most is that the design looks cheap, especially in the browser.

 

It seems like a forced redesign under some tough constraints. Be they time, money or directive.

 

I’m honestly hoping they’ll consider redoing the design even if it takes a year or two.Maybe spare some small improvements on the current design in the mean time.

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What features were taken away on Android?

Anything added?

Was anything changed “under the hood?” That hope to better speed or something?

I don’t like the logo. I liked the old one.

One wonders what their goal was with this change, literally. They had a reason. I’d like to hear it. 

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Wh

Just updated the app to a rather generic heart shape (I can live with that) but where is the album duration gone? I used to slide the album cover to see it, but I can't find it anywhere now. 

Which version, Android, etc?

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Please swap the queue and audio quality buttons on desktop, it’s really confusing to have them that way round now. :)

I think the new UI is ok, but I can’t bear the new logo especially having a purple heart on the launcher menu in android. It doesn’t integrate at all with the other apps and it doesn’t share the idea of music IMHO.

Latest version for android, 8.0.0.4

Agreed, it looks like edgy skin for music player from 2005, truly horrible. Purple is clearly mistake, it’s least liked color by men and top 2 most hated color by men after brown. I mean feminism and everything but alienating half the population of earth is probably not the most inclusive nor financially smart decision. Even pink was way better, I didn’t hate it. Also new font for logo and album titles is pain to read, you have to exert effort to read it.

Please add switch to old UI.

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Same here

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The icon looks more like a dating app.

I do not understand how they could ruin such an exclusive look Deezer had before, it was more about rainbow colors, now looks like basic and childish. What a shame.

I do hope they introduce an option to enable the old UI or, at least, they switch partially back.

not sure if its just me but im personally not a fan of the new update! strange purple heart, weird bold font and i cant swipe down to pull down my song anymore (small thing but it irritates me). what was this change for lol

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I absolutely agree. It looks awful, from the new logo, to the nonsensical information in the left panel (I really don't want to see my playlist there), it's slower and it's just hideous, oh yeah.

 

https://bit.ly/40vdM1l

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I absolutely agree. It looks awful, from the new logo, to the nonsensical information in the left panel (I really don't want to see my playlist there), it's slower and it's just hideous, oh yeah.

Previous design was awsome (Im web developer and i loved it ...) 
Im still looking reason why stay with Deezer (its gotten very expensive (compared to Spotify) and now its  even uglier …

Can you old LUXURY design take it back??? 

Hello everyone,

For me, the first association when look at the new Deezer logo is that application is made for dating and to find love through social network… That is just awful, and I hope they will change it as soon as possible… Really disappointing…

Best regards

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Yeah i just sent a help request to see if I can change it somewhere in settings or whatecver.

looks like YT and Twitch had an aborted baby.

If they stick to this design, I know I wont be extending my premium.

Deezer already looked OK and worked FINE. thats why I choose Deezer over other options.

 

Like people above me stated, feels like they rather wannabe another “social media”

 

You are not, you are DEEZER. I PAY you PLAY. nothing more, nothing less.

If Deezer thinks I wont vote with my wallet, they are mistaken.

The list of companies I never use services from is growing every week.

 

Dont do this to us Deezer. Fire your design team, or whoever approved of this and change back the UI

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Let me join the voices here… The new design is awful and yes I love Deezer. I don’t expect my voice to have any impact (and that’s ok) but just thinking that if there is lot of people with the same feeling things may change…

 

Hopefully Deezer will listen to the voices here if we make lot of noise :)

 

Note that my comments is more about the logo, the app is kind of ok to me.

The app now looks like it targets teen girls!

this looks like a rip off of spotify and crimes against ui design. please let me revert to the old one

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Twitch, YouTube and Fortnite had a night together which should have never happened….

 

So disapppointed with the new logo and even the font used in the app. It feels it’s for kids whereas before it was sleek and sophisticated. definitely considering moving to Spotify now.

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New design is awful and icon is atrocious. Looks like a dating app for a specific demographic. 
 

Why Deezer?! You had the most beautiful, elegant and user friendly app before. I guess I will finally skip to Apple music. 

I am missing some things. I do really love that the album covers/playlist covers look big. I think so far, I miss the feature that told me how long an album/playlist was the most

PLEASE GIVE US THE UI WE LOVED BACK!!!

The UI was great! The logo was great!

Best UI and most spot on logo in the music streaming business. Combined with a wast hifi quality collection, you wiped the floor with Spotify, Qobuz, and of course all the shitty streaming services by big players from entirely other markets, who wants to get on the waggon..

 

But this....?

This is not a move in your favour..

Please, roll back this update!

Or at least give us the opportunity to choose..

 

Best regards

Martin Jespersen 

 

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