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
