If you want to browse the songs in your library now in a list view, you still can but they’re all in a single list with no ability to filter – a bit pointless when you have thousands of songs. Since the arrival of the Music app, the flexibility to navigate your own music library has been greatly diminished. This meant you could filter down to a handful of albums and listen to these.
#Swinsian dark theme series
One thing iTunes did do well was the ability to browse and filter your music library, using a series of list box filters such as “genre”, “artist” and “album”. The release of MacOS Catalina in 2019 saw iTunes get retired, not a bad thing when it was clearly bloated and trying to do too much, and in many cases not particularly well. If you’re not vigilant about these things, you can very easily be duped – so here’s my recent pet peeves …ġ – iTunes and Apple Music Apple Music MacOS App – showing a song list view Ultimately they occur when the focus of those manging the experience becomes more about eking the numbers and maximising at all costs, over the impact and benefit to the user. Over time with continual optimisation and testing they take on a life of their own and become something else. Most dark patterns don’t have a malicious beginning, they usually start out life as ways to encourage a particular user behaviour, or subtly aid in reaching a business goal. I’ve rounded up three recent experiences that have got under my skin.Įveryday we unwittingly encounter dozens of systems designed to sub-consciously nudge us into taking actions we wouldn’t naturally do, but are mainly there to benefit the system masters – these are anti-patterns or dark-patterns.
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