On Dec 11, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Sachendra Yadav wrote: > Hi, > > Initially mobile phones used to have Play, Pause, Previous, Next (in > some cases Stop instead of Pause). Of late, quite a few mobile phones > have started adding Forward and Reverse within the current song. > > Does Forward/Reverse add any solid value in a music player for mobile > phones or is it an unnecessary feature creep which can be dropped?
Depends on how the fwd/rev buttons are implemented. Are they separate buttons, or are they integrated into the next/prev like many cd players? (i.e. Press the button to skip the track. Hold the button to scan within the current track.) If the fwd/rev functionality is mapped to the current physical buttons, then who cares? It's a transparent feature, and it's not like fwd/rev is overly complex and buggy. Many people might not even notice that the functionality exists, and people looking for the functionality will have been conditioned to expect it on those buttons from interactions with cd players. If new physical buttons are added, then why was this method chosen? Is the interface too cluttered? Are the buttons too small? If you mean "why would someone even use this functionality?" Then there's plenty of reasons. podcasts, skipping 8 minutes of silence to get to the "hidden" song on an album. (Now there's a usability issue! What's up with "hiding" songs?) Adding features isn't bad per se. It's the addition of features that interfere with using the product that is bad. -- Jonathan Koren [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~jonathan/ ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
