Music Software & Interface Design: MuseScore

Why HN readers recommended it

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

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tantacrul

Topic

ui design critique

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• The solution isn't to put things in preference windows either because even smart users will find that cumbersome. There's an interesting pair of videos (if you have some time) that goes over the UI of two competing music scoring software and why one is bad …

• they actually hired the person behind this video (tantacrul): [VIDEO] It criticize the user interface and experience of various music application. I find it very entertaining yet still informative

• If anyone's curious, here are Tantacrul's entertaining videos on MuseScore and designing MuseScore's new font, and the Audacity video from yesterday: [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK]