Hey Eduardo, I've left out things which are duly noted or are known
bugs.  Thanks for the response!

> There is no initial player feedback indicating to 
> the user that the video is loading, other than the 
> area stating the delayed playback. I think valuable 
> real estate is being misused by not providing the 
> user with "what's happening"

Are you talking about simply moving the feedback from the slider into
a more prominent position?

> The speaker icon is pretty prominent, however you 
> can't click on it to mute the audio, you have to decrease 
> the audio level to 0 to do this, why not allow this function? 

Yup, noted.  In addition, I feel the hot spots for your cursor need
to be bigger.  Mousing seems to be too precise around the sliders.

> While there is no standard (to my knowledge) of a "maximize" 
> symbol, the one being employed is not completely 
> clear.  

Someone brought this up earlier...  What about spelling out "View
Full Screen"?  Is that appropriate or overkill?  Would a new icon
with a tooltip suffice?

> When going to full screen, the controls don't scale, 
> they remain the same size - why not scale them?  

Honestly, I'm not sure why it turned out this way other than I was
told the flash dev would take care of it.  Part of the reason is the
politics of making everyone happy and perhaps it was deemed this
individual needed to maintain control of this portion of the UI.

> Why not provide total time for the items being displayed 
> here, as well as an option to play either "low res" 
> or "his res"?  

The feeling here was that things were just too cramped.  Our naming
convention is quite daunting and we wanted to avoid truncating for
SEO reasons.  But I do see the value in total time.  The PM and I
discussed using bigger thumbnails and allowing for more summary
space.  This would reduce the number of columns but force the user to
scroll more.  Thoughts?

> Clicking on "view all" takes me to a completely different 
> area, disconnects me from the UI I'm already familiarizing 
> myself with.  

In the case of Images, I feel it's appropriate.  We're trying to
link the user to other media they might be interested in.  But for
Videos, are you talking about dynamically generating the content
within the playlist?

> Are the recommended videos driven by tags or are they 
> matched up manually? Seems to me that more related 
> videos could be offered and some sort of scrolling/navigation 
> could be provided to view this, in this same space. 

It's supposed to be videos from the related genre and was supposed
to allow the user to scroll through 30 videos.  It was cut for time
reasons so hopefully we'll have it back soon!


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