Just to clarify, I did not and am not suggesting at all that rich interfaces
are flawed.
However, where users are unable to interact with a site because of the way
technology has been designed and implemented, I do believe the Interaction
Design is flawed.
David, I didn't realise Songza is intend
We're doing work for a client who offers similar functionality. Our
initial research offers two possible critiques for Songza (which I
otherwise think is very cool):
1. On the interface side, people think a song will start playing when
you click on it. Exposing the navigation over a song is ingeni
David: "I don't think "innaccessibility" is an issue with these
sites. Especially Songza which is meant as a study in Interaction
Design."
One could argue that sites that focus on audio might be on special
interest to the visually impaired.
If Songza was an exercise in interface design then I mig
Lisa are you suggesting that any sort of richness makes an interface
severly flawed? I mean you can't do anything rich w/o it. Even a
simple rollover requires some sort of javascript.
As to an comparison of the 2 interfaces. I found lost on Seeqpod.
There was too much going on and very little supp
Lisa, functionally there appears to be little difference between the
two.
I would disagree (personal opinion obviously!) about the ease of
interaction. My take-away thought about Seeqpod is that most of the
options are up front whereas Songza, for me, did a better job of
defining the primary cont
Hi Lisa,
I can't really understand what you mean by this. Certainly, relying on
flash/js is an accessibility issue and degrades the user experience of
users that don't have these features enabled, but for the rest of us
it provides a better user experience with more immediate feedback than
Hi all
I think the Songza interface is far more interesting when you compare it
with Seeqpod.com.
Seeqpod has offered a very similar service for quite some time. While Songza
is more visually attractive to me, I think seeqpod is much easier to
interact with and use. I'd be interested to know what
Hi all
I think the Songza interface is far more interesting when you compare it
with Seeqpod.com.
Seeqpod has offered a very similar service for quite some time. While Songza
is more visually attractive to me, I think seeqpod is much easier to
interact with and use. I'd be interested to know what
