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Music Software & Interface Design: MuseScore

Tantacrul · commentary · Watch on YouTube

UX & UI designMusic theory, synthesis & production

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “There's an interesting pair of videos (if you have some time) that goes over the UI of two competing music scoring software”

    UI critique of MuseScore versus a competitor

    xmprt, 2019-09 · Recommendation · in “The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)”

  2. “I find it very entertaining yet still informative”

    UI/UX critique of MuseScore, entertaining and informative

    hexmiles, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “MuseScore 4: Moving from notation software to composition software”

  3. “here are Tantacrul's entertaining videos on MuseScore”

    Entertaining Tantacrul videos on MuseScore

    meowface, 2021-05 · Recommendation · in “Audacity Aquired by Muse Group”

  4. “Obligatory funny video review of MuseScore 3 UI”

    Funny review of MuseScore 3 UI

    radicality, 2022-12 · Recommendation · in “MuseScore 4”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: musescore, ux design, music notation, sibelius, interface review

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