Scrollable Tab Bar / Player

See full project here: https://www.mariohall.com/cymbal-3/

When redesigning 3.0, we had new features that required us to ditch the hybrid player design from 2.0.

One idea I had was a paginated, scrollable player/tab bar that let you focus on consumption or exploration as your session dictated.

One worry I had was that people would forget where the player was, so everytime they'd tap a song to listen to, the player would peek out to let you know where it lived.

I didn't end up having time to user-test this with a prototype that was more fleshed out, and I worried too much about discoverability, so it was scrapped. That being said, I think it's pretty cool and a smart solution to the stacked player bar issue (Spotify, Apple Music), hamburger menu issue (Pandora, Tidal), or the muscle-memory issue (SoundCloud's sometimes-there, sometimes-not player icon in their tab bar).