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Music Software & Interface Design: MuseScore

Tantacrul · 959.5K views · 2019-03-19 · 33:39

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Overview

Tantacrul gives a detailed UX and UI design review of the MuseScore 3 notation software and compares it with Sibelius. It examines visual appeal, navigation and notation quality.

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Cited as a funny, informative teardown of bad interface design, and for the story that MuseScore hired him as head of design afterward.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2019–2024

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UX & UI designMusic theory, synthesis & production
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musescoreux designmusic notationsibeliusinterface review

What people said

radicality · 2022-12 · Recommendation

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]

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meowface · 2021-05 · Recommendation

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]

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hexmiles · 2020-06 · Recommendation

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

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