as someone who has left spotify for apple music several years ago & seeing this for the first time, i'm not seeing any super major issues about it (i can understand --at a glance-- what and how it works). what are your immediate thoughts? would love to know your thinking.

Okay, so if we think of this layout as a window, it makes no sense - especially the dynamic between the main panel and the sidebar. It only makes sense if we start thinking about the UI in terms of independent and customizable floating panels

i can understand that. i wonder if spotify designers chose panels as a visual style...which to a typical user (aka not designer) it does fine to section off info. would be great as customizable floating panels! otherwise it IS visually busy and could be simplified mhmm

I miss the old layout a lot still. I feel like there’s way too much going on in the sidebar / it’s so cramped. I liked seeing just the names of my playlists on the side, didn’t need to see anything else lol…