Label buttons - one more time

[Enrico Ros]

On Saturday 13 February 2010 20:04:20 Daniel Dewald wrote:
> On Saturday, 13. February 2010 19:41:14 Thomas Lübking wrote:
> 
> First of all I may not be THE UI guy but I recently attended to a class
> called "Human Interface Interaction" and had an exam about it which is
> both quite vivid in my mind. And the FIRST rule of UI simply is to give
> the user what he expects. Its nice to invent new stuff and its nice to
> have new features as long as the user opens the UI and knows what he has
> to do to get the job done. So what is the user expecting when he wants to
> play music? He wants an arrow button to start playing, a two bars button
> for pause (its plausible to integrate those two), a button with a
> rectangle for stop and two buttons with 2 arrows in it for next and
> previous. We have no stop button which personally I hate.. and we also
> have no next and previous buttons. That a simple fact. If I have to SEARCH
> for the next, previous and stop "buttons" the UI simply does not work as
> expected which violates the most fundamental rules of Interaction. So for
> god sake put those damn buttons back where they belong and let us work on
> features who are not integrated in the mind of the user since the first
> music player invented EVER! Sorry if my comment about this is a bit pissed
> but we all dance around this and it simply is stupid from my point of view
> because its obvious.

I second you about the arrows, but I invite you to consider that Thomas, apart 
from being a great artist, is very willing to resolve the issues! Plus he has 
a rare quality: he happens to stick around even when people criticize his work 
or order him to "put those damn buttons back where they belong and let us 
work".

Oh, and my 13yo cousin doesn't do what a 'stop' button will do, his iPod 
doesn't have one.

Enrico