The screenshot compares the sidebars in iTunes 10 and 11. The color is still relatively understated, but works well as a visual cue when attempting to distinguish between the different icons. This was widely decried when it first happened, but most of the critics lapsed into sullen silence when subsequent releases maintained the monochromatic look.Īlthough iTunes 11 deprecates the sidebar in general, when you do show it with View → Show Sidebar, it now appears with color icons throughout. The Sidebar Returns to Oz - The last few versions of iTunes (and the Finder, and Mail) rinsed all color from their sidebars, relying solely on tiny icons and text to help users differentiate among the items. That may be good or bad, depending on your perspective, but it’s certainly something you should keep an eye on. iTunes is sufficiently central to the user experience of most Apple users that its interface changes could give a sense of where Apple might take OS X’s interface. What I’m finding the most interesting about iTunes 11 is not its features, which are almost entirely the same as in previous versions, but the way that it thinks about interface in a rather different way from the previous versions. #1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STX.
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