NightRaid: A Winamp Skin

Originally published at One Misfired Synapse. You can comment here or there.

Over on reddit, a user posted a link asked “anyone else remember skinning this?” The link was to a screen shot of the default user interface for Winamp. Winamp is one of the older and more popular of the mp3 players. I recommend it for the visualization library and the tagging and reburning features alone.

Yes, those buttons and sliders are animated.

I’m a big fan of UI design. It’s fun to do in website design because you’re free to do anything with very little in the way of limitations. However, sometimes it’s a lot of fun to work under practical constrictions. It causes a person to have to really push themselves and see how far they can get away with.

Over the course of a few months, I designed and released three skins. Two of them were shared on Winamp.com, and two were released to critical acclaim over on DeviantArt.