Before I went to John Mayer’s concert last night I listened to the playlist “John Mayer- Where The List Is” on You Tube. Well things were quite simple: I toggled on/off of the Autoplay and Shuffle buttons, I skipped a song by clicking >| , cool.
This morning I searched for the same playlist again, but I couldn’t find the any of these icons! Weird, I went back to my book (on Kindle lol) and totally forgot about the playlist thing. In the middle of my reading I felt tired so I moved my eyes from small Kindle to the screen, I suddenly noticed something: a thick dark gray bar at the bottom of the YouTube page showing all the buttons and title of playing song. I can also reach all songs in the playlist by clicking on an up arrow.
I’m neutral to this feature, I think it’s good actually, but let’s take a look at a similar example.
Hulu-- http://www.hulu.com/
TuDou.com -- http://www.tudou.com/
What's the difference between their playlists and YouTube's? Theirs are closer to the player itself. In Fitts Law, the closer and bigger your target area is, the faster the users can perform the action and the fewer opportunities the users get confused.
That's it.
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