Recently Listened Tracks

Shown on the user's profile, this chart incorporates the main themes of Last.fm, both visually and conceptually. The color theme is maintained in this chart, while still displaying images relevant to the content (album covers, artist images). These images are small enough to not interfere with the overall visual coloring of the chart and site. The song being currently "scrobbled" is placed on top, and is highlighted and given a larger image. This visual change gives focus to Last.fm's major theme of immediacy. Their information is at the moment. Small play buttons show Last.fm's ability to communicate with listeners tastes. They can play whatever songs they listened to most recently off the website itself. There is a conversation between the media player and the website, but neither depends on the other to play back music or to create an overall display of the user's musical preferences.

The visual design of the chart is very simplistic and therefore very easy to understand. The chart is straight to the point, simply giving artist name, track name, and when it was played. It also displays a heart symbol in order to show which tracks have been "loved" by the user. Asteriks are shown to display tracks in which Last.fm has automatically corrected the spelling of the artist or song title. The symbols help simplify the chart, and Last.fm does not include artist background or even the album in this chart. This is very much with the theme of Last.fm. The simplier the better. Last.fm desires to take a large amount of information and condense it into clean-cut, easy to understand, to the point charts and bullets. The site's overall simplistic design creates the mood of easiness.