Before and After: Google Play Music website gets a Material redesign

Google is launching a redesign of the Google Play Music website, its browser-based companion to the Android and iOS apps. The new design looks a lot like the mobile apps, with a bright orange header, collapsible sidebar, and full-width background images for some pages.

The interface was rewritten in Polymer, Google's UI toolkit for the Web that aims to bring an app-like experience to the Web. In an interview with The Verge, Google UX designer Bryan Rea stated "We're moving towards making the web feel more like an app and less like a series of web pages strung together by links. The new header, the slick transition as you scroll, the collapsible nav, new animations, these all feel like things you expect in an app not on the Web."