Wednesday, October 15, 2008

There's No Pause for Alarm!


I was watching a product demo and noticed this interesting design quirk (in my mind anyway).

The playback controls did not include a Pause function, just Play and Stop.

Small thing but most of us think that using the Stop function will halt playing the video and return to the beginning. Not so here. It actually pauses and holds the position then resumes if the Play function is selected.

Not conventional and for some users it will be confusing. Why not go the extra little bit and remove any possibility of a diminished user experience.

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