NMJ V2 Source Menu whats your opinion

[requis]

(05-23-2011 12:55 PM)ehatzinikolaou Wrote:  

(05-22-2011 04:42 PM)sanctrum Wrote:  TRIPLE BAD! Personally I am shocked how this kind of interface would have been even proposed for NMT?!

I hate Windows Phone 7 interface. It does not look modern at all and it is several steps back into icon design. All it can propose is the smooth animation motion. Nothing else. It is just ugly as much it can be.

Now transferring it to NMT is just a joke, yes?

NMT is not multi-touch 3' screen phone. It is NMT! It must have WOW effect at the FIRST LOOK.
Simple geometrical shapes, meaningless icons, bad organization of media... VERY BAD impression at first look.

How to improve?:
1. At first THINK what users want to have/do at the first level UI... Then at LAST step think how to make it look WOW!
2. The first level UI MUST be simple for everyone even for not PC friendly user. People just want to watch MOVIES, listen to the MUSIC, browse INTERNET, watch albums of PICTURES and put some CD/DVD/BD... They do not want to know if the movie is streamed from NAS, internal HDD, USB, SAMBA, NFS, Youtube or other unspecified network service. This kind of knowledge is needed ONLY for the person (let's call it admin) who is putting those files to the NMT for the family. My family DO NOT WANT me to come EVERY time to help them to use the BASIC NMT functions.
3. The first level UI must be configurable... The users must have the possibility to add/hide unneeded icons... eg... NOT everyone has NAS at home. Not everyone has internal HDD put inside... and NOT everyone has BD drive... at last NOT everyone are using APPS and other Network or Internet services...
4. The settings button CAN NOT be at the same "level" then other media icons/buttons. My family DO NOT WANT to go there. They are simply NOT interested into the settings.
5. In general people are sorting their media as much as they can in the way THEY and theirs families used to. Why not to let them doing it the same way? LET the admin DECIDE how he wants to organize the media.
The family wants to watch movies? OK so the admin will SHARE the corresponding files to the MOVIES icon... E.g. all movie type files from HDD selected folder + some network shares + some SELECTED APPS (Youtube, HD nation, etc.) - but HE decides what is best option for the family.
6. The same for MUSIC and PICTURES albums - the admin shall decide if he wants to put/share there some HDD files, network NAS shares, Internet Apps, etc.. or not.
7. NOW you can start thinking how to make it look nice, impressive, WOW, etc... NOT like a phone

Organize the NMJ front end for Content NOT BY LOCATION.
Location is irrelevant to our families.

I would entirely agree with this post, and the post above with the exception of point 8 removed. This is about the content afterall. If you had one icon to come back to this source submenu then that would be the one icon everyone in my family would stay away from...

And to be clear if its about making everything flash ready for the menus...use what you have the current menu is very effective, and is not broken....going backward in this regard if you change it.

Regards,

Requis