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| iPod IA and design. Posted on 01/16/2002. |
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Be forewarned, this is another link to a mailing list. But no damning invective here. Just a pointer to Andrew Hinton's thoughtful post on how information architecture (in general) and faceted classification (in particular) is the core of the iPod's user interface. An elegant solution for a display that offers 6 lines of text. Facets r00l. I finally played with an iPod, and was delighted to see the return of Apple's Chicago font, designed by Susan Kare for the original interface. Not only a classy hearkening back to Apple's legacy, Chicago serves an extremely explicit function--designed for a 1-bit display, the vertical strokes of the characters are two pixels wide, so that one pixel could be turned off to represent "greyed out" and still be legible.
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COMMENT #1
Apple improved on Chicago later, though, with the fonts it did for the Newton, particularly Espy. Besides, the iPod's UI never grays out text.
Posted by Jerry Kindall @ 01/17/2002 12:45 PM PST [link to this comment]
COMMENT #2
Apple improved on Chicago later, though, with the fonts it did for the Newton, particularly Espy. Besides, the iPod's UI never grays out text.
Posted by Jerry Kindall @ 01/17/2002 12:45 PM PST [link to this comment]
COMMENT #3
The problem, though, is that the information in ID3 tags varies so greatly. And different programs encode ID3 info in different ways. So if you want a well-organized MP3 collection, and take full advantage of iPod/iTunes faceted classification, you need your own controlled vocabulary and a utility program like ID3x. PT: Belle and Sebastian
VT: Belle & Sebastian, Belle + Sebastian, Bell & Sebastian, etc., etc., etc.
Posted by Gene @ 01/17/2002 02:43 PM PST [link to this comment]
COMMENT #4
iTunes is a pretty capable MP3 tag editor. It even does batch edits if you select multiple files.
Posted by Jerry Kindall @ 01/17/2002 09:48 PM PST [link to this comment]
COMMENT #5
...and someday, iTunes will be as good as SoundJam, the program that it's derived from made by the same developers when they were Cassady and Greene. (Although I think that all the categorization features have made it from SJ into iTunes.)
Posted by Andrew @ 01/18/2002 01:44 AM PST [link to this comment]
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