The leader
Whos the leader??
Music
The contrast between the Phone interfaces collectively and iPod Music interface specifically on the machine is interesting. The Phone functions have been kept clean and straightforward, accessible to all, no matter how technologically backward. The apparent goal has been to fully support current users of special features, while embracing new legions of users put off by fancy stuff like Call Waiting. Not so the iPod music features. Here, Apple has turned up the “cool,” even though accompanied with a far higher level of complexity than in the Phone functions. Here, for the first time, there are multiple and, to those of advanced years, like, say, 30, potentially confusing ways of accessing the same information.
This again demonstrates the genius of the development team: They have built appropriate interfaces for each class of expected user. It’s well known that old people don’t listen to rock music 23.5 hours a day. Why make them your design center?
Video
The interface is clean, simple, and tracks that found in other areas such as voicemail and contact lists. Again, the orientation-sensor makes it easy to watch films as intended.
What’s more interesting here is one of the fundamental principles of interface at work: The best interface in the world will not help a project that is technologically deficient, sometimes referred to as “putting lipstick on the pig.” Here, no lipstick is needed. The screen, as mentioned earlier, approximates the effective resolution of NTSC, comfortable enough to watch a standard TV show as well as movies other than special-effects fests, such as Star Wars, where nothing short of a six-foot HDTV will really do.
Music
The contrast between the Phone interfaces collectively and iPod Music interface specifically on the machine is interesting. The Phone functions have been kept clean and straightforward, accessible to all, no matter how technologically backward. The apparent goal has been to fully support current users of special features, while embracing new legions of users put off by fancy stuff like Call Waiting. Not so the iPod music features. Here, Apple has turned up the “cool,” even though accompanied with a far higher level of complexity than in the Phone functions. Here, for the first time, there are multiple and, to those of advanced years, like, say, 30, potentially confusing ways of accessing the same information.
This again demonstrates the genius of the development team: They have built appropriate interfaces for each class of expected user. It’s well known that old people don’t listen to rock music 23.5 hours a day. Why make them your design center?
Video
The interface is clean, simple, and tracks that found in other areas such as voicemail and contact lists. Again, the orientation-sensor makes it easy to watch films as intended.
What’s more interesting here is one of the fundamental principles of interface at work: The best interface in the world will not help a project that is technologically deficient, sometimes referred to as “putting lipstick on the pig.” Here, no lipstick is needed. The screen, as mentioned earlier, approximates the effective resolution of NTSC, comfortable enough to watch a standard TV show as well as movies other than special-effects fests, such as Star Wars, where nothing short of a six-foot HDTV will really do.
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