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iTunes will never work well

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Re: iTunes will never work well

#11

Post by jheriko »

i don't understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.

the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.

they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...

... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.

Re: iTunes will never work well

#12

Post by askafriend »

jheriko wrote: post #11

i don't understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible. the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design. they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow... ... i could go on and on, but having zero-di…

To be fair, even Google has terrible UI/UX these days. Just look at Google Maps or Gmail. Material design isn't that great for discoverability either.

Re: iTunes will never work well

#13

Post by [deleted] »

jheriko wrote: post #11

i don't understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible. the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design. they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow... ... i could go on and on, but having zero-di…

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Re: iTunes will never work well

#14

Post by mrsteveman1 »

I'm still kinda curious why iTunes has blocked the UI thread so often for such a long time, perhaps a limitation of the overall architecture of the app combined with having webviews everywhere calling out to native code?

Re: iTunes will never work well

#17

Post by Bud »

Interesting that every single UI example in this article is from an old version of Windows.

Fuck Windows. You want iTunes to work well? You want to see Apple's real UI? Then use their real platform.

Re: iTunes will never work well

#18

Post by jsz0 »

trevyn wrote: post #6

Hah! I also literally had to Google how to play a song on repeat, but for me in the new iOS 10 Music app.

IIRC the location / icon for the song/album repeat toggle hasn't changed in iTunes since 11.0 in 2012 though. The menu entry for it hasn't changed in more than a decade. Music on iOS 10 was a big revamp so that's understandable but iTunes? It simply hasn't changed much or at all in 4 years. No clue how anyone could be confused about it.

Re: iTunes will never work well

#20

Post by flukus »

askafriend wrote: post #12
jheriko wrote: post #11

i don't understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible. the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design. they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow... ... i could go on and on, but having zero-di…

To be fair, even Google has terrible UI/UX these days. Just look at Google Maps or Gmail. Material design isn't that great for discoverability either.

They took away the zoom in/out floating buttons on the android maps app, managing to destroy discoverability and single handed operation.
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