Rhapsody: Music Guide
Music Service Re-design
RealNetworks circa 2004-05
During the age of Napster, Rhapsody was a preeminent subscription-based streaming music service at the time.
RealNetworks wanted to refresh Rhapsody. I was responsible for redesigning the music catalog and create new features to support sharing music (pre-mainstream social media).
Additionally, I had already started designing two web music players for Rhapsody and Comcast powered by the Rhapsody platform as conduit for sharing playlists online.
The Guide
Documentation
Before the age of Figma, it was the wild west when it came to design documentation, especially for a company with a small design team. Back then it required you to measure pixels in Photoshop, then export them to a graphic format to share with the developer. They originally were shared as individual graphics, which was a mess to track.
To aggregate individual files, I started to compile them into PDFs using InDesign. The rest of the design team followed suit as this made it easier to track design specs.
