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[Mobile] Get rid of 'Create' button on mobile navigation bar

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I recently got the last update, and found that a fourth button was added to the bottom navbar. What's the point of this? It's in the way of entering 'Your Library' section, as this was the default spot for that button.

Besides that, does it really need to have a shortcut? How often do people create new playlists or blends? There's already a button for that in 'Your Library', so...

I think removing this button will improve UI.

Comments
Eevee13

Great comment russianvoodoo, this is stupid and no one wants this feature on Spotify. They keep trying to make new features we don't want and no one knows why

caddi

I've just received the create tab update, and it is immediately very annoying because it's muscle memory to click on it as that was where playlists were before. Please change it back to just home, search and your library. Or, please give us the chance to disable it! Thank youuu

ien4444

Agreed!!!! This is such terrible user experience design. How did this get approved? Who is leading this type of decision making?  This is absolutely infuriating! It suggests that users are making playlists more often than they are accessing their music libraries. 

 

As a right handed person living in THE HUMAN WORLD that location should be reserved for the leading purpose of the app— LISTENING TO MUSIC. 

 

It is absolutely infuriating and insulting and borderline violent to implement this change!!!

 

How the **bleep** do you people receive salaries for this type of decision making? Everyone involved in this decision has proven their incompetence and should be fired. It’s such a small but ultimately telling change. Leadership is garbage. Designers are garbage. You are all pathetic and violent designers. 

TheWhiteSnake

Came here to post this. Terrible choice. Every option in the “create” tab could be listed somewhere less intrusive. Instead of a “primary tab” make it an “auxiliary tab,” similar to tapping your profile picture and going to your actual profile settings. 

ffluxpavillion

TERRIBLE.  Remove immediately!

 

Library is something we all use every single day.  You're forcing users to sacrifice muscle memory for a button that we ALREADY HAD in the library.  We don’t want to create nEw PlAyLiStS every single day and need that on a nav bar.  Change**bleep** back.  Insane UI/UX decision guys. Jesus.

missjdot

For some reason, I only just received this new UI update and I immediately tapped on the create button because I wanted to enter my library. Why would you go against muscle memory that much? I‘m a UX Designer myself and for such a change to be made, at least 60% or more of users are creating playlists more than they‘re entering their library. I can hardly believe that‘s true. It‘s SO annoying. Please, for the love of music, roll it back.

TheOnlyZac

I just got this new button today and I hate it. I have tapped it several times by accident trying to get to my library. I create a new playlist maybe once every few months, and I can do that from my library, so it’s entirely a waste of space for me. At least having the option to hide it would be a compromise.

medullaoblongat

Allow users to change the order of the bottom tab menu. 

Mpls10k

Seriously Spotify please give us the option to disable it, it’s pure UI clutter. Prime example of enshittification of your app. 

doffbatz

I would like to be able to move or edit the navigation buttons the way I like it. It has become muscle memory for me to press the bottom right corner for the library and ever since it has been moved, I click the wrong button almost every day. I would like to move the button back to its former position but I seem to be unable to do so currently.