If you’re in a band with a huge repertoire, you need robust and simple songbook management from your lyric prompter. We had added groups and manual sorting to our Teleprompt+ app, but we quickly suspected that for Setlists we needed a very different approach to file management. Singers would need to handle many more files [...]
“I don’t see the mockups for the remote feature. Did you ever get those to me.” This is what Tim wrote one night late in the process of developing Setlists. I had done so many mockups, so many revisions of every other aspect of the app, but for some reason, I had never gotten around [...]
I wanted to take a moment to talk about the way Setlists creates page breaks, because it’s a good demonstration of why you should share your design issues with your collaborators. As I mentioned in an earlier installment of this series, one of the early decisions for Setlists was that it wouldn’t have constantly scrolling [...]
I remember one time listening to Billy Sheehan explain why he doesn’t use active pickups on any of his basses. He said that batteries are a variable, and his goal was to eliminate as many variables as possible when he is performing. The more things you have in the chain of your setup, the more [...]
