Thanks for the valuable remarks. I downloaded the application and it seems quite good. Of course, being an application it's got a lot of contextual support like right clicking and hot jumping to functions / the storem ( which a website may struggle to have I think) . But I am with you, downloading (one more) application is a bit of a cognitive roadblock. Besides, this app take a relatively longer time to download (although the experience is not that bad sans the waiting part).
I found the desktop interface quite well resolved in terms of the interaction design / layout and also the simplistic visual design. The digital music universe still suffers from metadata cacophony.. hence GIGO wise, the music organization is as tacky as the other applications.. but I wonder what is the solution for that? What do you do with metadata that isn't complete or accurate in the present form and the future is contextual and semantic in nature? I expected some bit of that here but didnt see.. In the end, echoing your thoughts, music is a very emotional experience and you want the track / album right now (daughter wants it, party demands it with a cruel clock ticking by)... Regards, Mayur On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:34 PM, William Hudson <[email protected] > wrote: > Mayur - > > From a practical point of view there are at least two big problems. The > first is that it *looks* as though you have to download the Nokia Music > application before you can do anything else. I am not keen on this. My > daughter wanted a specific album a couple of years ago and I visited > about four different music stores before I found it. I had to spend 10 > minutes downloading and installing software at each one before > discovering (in 3 cases out of the 4) that they didn't have what I was > looking for. However, in this case appearances are deceptive. If you > select your country first, you can skip directly to a new home page with > artist and title search (this is not at all obvious given the big, fat > 'Download Now' button and lack of functionality on the first page). > > The second is not really a web site problem but will impact its > usefulness dramatically. According to the site, the music files used > are WMA and are DRM locked. So while the rest of the downloads industry > is moving to easy-to-use MP3's, Nokia is pedalling backwards. Oh well. > > Regards, > > William > > PS - The site also makes it seem that you need a Nokia device to > download to. You don't, but you have to persevere to find this out. And > don't get me started on the dark grey on light grey colour scheme at the > bottom of the first page<g>. > > PPS - In our mobile phone e-commerce benchmarking, visual design was the > highest scoring area for all sites (75%). However, things like helping > customers sort out problems with online tools did not do so well (2%). > It would be really nice to see more substance than gloss in sites like > this (although gloss is important too, I admit). See www.uxbench.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > Mayur Karnik > > Sent: 08 July 2009 09:07 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Nokia Music Store > > > > Has anyone checked out the Nokia Music Store? > > http://musicstore.nokia.com/download.aspx. > > > > I found it beautiful on first glance, in fact very beautiful! > > Simplicity > > Rules. > > Comments / reviews? > ... > ________________________________________________________________ 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
