Quickie #1: Giving the volume control a makeover in Windows 10
With Windows 8, Microsoft introduce a nifty little volume control that allowed users to easily control the current song they are playing — and of course, change the volume. Just like a lot of other Windows 8 features, Microsoft is yet to give the volume control a Windows 10 makeover — meaning the feature still looks like exactly like it used to back in Windows 8.
So here’re some quick concepts I did last night to give the volume control a makeover in Windows 10.
Here’s the first one which shows the song that’s currently playing along with the app that’s playing the song. In this case, Groove Music is playing “New Man” by Ed Sheeran and there’s a tiny Groove logo to indicate the current app. You’ll also see an arrow pointing to the right which will only show up when you have multiple app open that are playing a music file at the same time.
The first concept shows the normal state of the volume control, and this is the state when the user changes the volume — here, the overlay’s height will change depending on the volume:
This is a pretty simple and modern UI that fits with almost everything else on Windows 10. Right now, the volume control feels out of place but hopefully Microsoft is planning on redesigning it soon.
Oh, here’s two of the “early” concepts for the makeover that I designed at first but didn’t really like them at the end:
Hope you guys enjoyed this quick concept, I’ll have more similar quickies here from now on — so make sure to let me know if you want me to work on something.
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