The site objective is simple. Click on one of the colored bars. It’s a mixtape. Listen to it. THATS IT.

This image shows a list of my favorites, all I get information-wise is the name of the mixtape (in the colored bar) and the song and artist titles on the tape. I LOVE IT. Muxtape gives me what I need and nothing more. The experience is far more valuable, that the options on the website. I like that more and more I am seeing sites that are not this broad spectrum of too many things and too much stuff to look at. I want more sites as tools. And muxtape is it.

yes, I could complain about some things, it’s true. I won’t LIE. I would love to make a muxtape, but its a bit too complicated in my opinion. But I am sure that will get simpler. In the meantime though, I have what I want and need- mixtapes are BACK.

The Interaction design association has a nice thread on this conversation too: ixda muxtape interface

There is an interesting point at the bottom of the (amazingly short) thread that someone makes in response to a remark criticizing the muxtape interface, that ‘talking about problems is a great way to learn.’ This is an interesting thing to note. While I agree with that I think that this can lead to expecting too much from everything.

I am not convinced that every project need meet every possible desire. It is possible to spend too much time thinking about the way things should be and not enough time exploring what can be done with what IS.

This is true for life too. Not to say that being critical isn’t valuable. It really is.

Muxtapes constraints are similar to the original mixtape. Slow and time consuming interactions are what made mixtapes wonderful and dreadful at the same time. The experiential value of making a mixtape was in knowing that the person that listened to the tape knew you had to take time to make it. It’s allegorical.

Oh heck. I will just post my little essay on this. btw: it works on iphones! (so you can run and listen to your muxtapes)