How We're Redesigning Audacity For The Future
This video digs into the research and design that went into gradually transforming Audacity 3 - a free and open source audio editor and production app - and how we've built on that work to develop Audacity 4.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Sigh - another PR issue
05:13 - Who is Audacity for?
07:52 - The state of Audacity in 2020
11:45 - Technical debt
16:07 - The gradual transformation of Audacity 3
32:03 - Building Audacity 4
36:47 - Productivity improvements
44:10 - The new branding
46:48 - The final push!