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January 13, 2005
iTunes - where is that darn circled arrow?
Apple, a company renowned and famous for exquisite attention to usability and detail, creates many wonderful products, including iTunes, the music jukebox for the ubiquitous iPod *. Even tho i don't have an iPod, i like iTunes, and use it as my primary music player. The iTunes Music Store is also great, being the only place i've purchased digital music online. The iTMS, based on what would seem to be a form of Apple's Safari browser, has a good layout and simple ordering scheme.
However, what i'm getting at here is that for all the good things of the iTMS, why are the artists and album names so difficult to select in the track-display screen? I'm only 25, with no major physical impairments, and already i feel like i need the unwavering hand precision of a neural surgeon just to select a track's artist/album name. Why can one so easily double-click the track (albeit a not so obvious feature) yet have to click on a tiny circled arrow next to an artist or album name? Why can't the names be hyper-linked, like so many other things in the iTMS, providing a much larger area to click on? Come on Apple, i'm sure the coding can't be that hard. Anybody have a good reason for this?
* yay for the new iPod Shuffle! :)
Posted by MaTT at January 13, 2005 01:12 PM
Comments
to answer your question - I have no idea
to say something I thought of when I saw the word iTunes - my new boy is a total computer geek and when I mentioned that I used itunes (actually, I think he saw it on my screen or something) he was apalled, I still don't know why though. I just said "shut up" and we moved on, so... yeah
Posted by: Urs at January 15, 2005 07:31 PM
Unwavering hand precision --> build up those wrists! ;)
Posted by: srah at January 19, 2005 03:59 PM
I think apple needs to hire more people like us. I have seen no usability posting in the past 3 months on the apple jobs site...
Posted by: Cari at January 19, 2005 07:38 PM
Me too -- Apple seems to like CompSci people tho :(
Posted by: MaTT at January 21, 2005 04:47 PM
I'm surprised no one has complained about the power search function, which just seemd completely out of whack. I think the fields are out of order anyway. Do I know what I'm saying? No. Absolutely not.
Posted by: Kyle at April 7, 2005 02:07 PM