{"id":288,"date":"2008-09-10T23:27:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T22:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2008-09-10T23:27:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T22:27:39","slug":"itunes-8-ux-genius-login-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/itunes-8-ux-genius-login-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes 8 UX genius login problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying a latest software update is something that every true <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Apple Inc.\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a> user does in the morning after the big Apple announcement. So this time it was <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"ITunes\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\">iTunes<\/a> 8 with it&#8217;s genius button that automatically makes great connected playlist.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason I was sleepy enough to actually fail at their Genius\/iTunes store login form. Whoever designed this probably didn&#8217;t realize that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Radio button\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_button\">radio buttons<\/a> seem to indicate that they have text areas next to them and that they are not visually separated enough.<\/p>\n<p>My solution for the problem showed in a screen shot below would be to move the radio buttons on top of the form, or at least make it more visually separated. Without this change, it&#8217;s really easy to just assume that the form wants you apple ID, but the second text box is there to enter you AOL ID, if you have one.<\/p>\n<p>The error message is also pretty obscure, just one red arrow next to big AOL logo. Whoever design this, released it much too soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"flickr-image\" title=\"Itunes form\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57249471@N00\/2845560150\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3248\/2845560150_47375c247e.jpg\" alt=\"Itunes form\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/d07151b6-a00e-4c1d-85ee-27c8a37f4269\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=d07151b6-a00e-4c1d-85ee-27c8a37f4269\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying a latest software update is something that every true Apple user does in the morning after the big Apple announcement. So this time it was iTunes 8 with it&#8217;s genius button that automatically makes great connected playlist. For some reason I was sleepy enough to actually fail at their Genius\/iTunes store login form. Whoever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[414,413,936,387],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usability","tag-interface","tag-itunes-8","tag-usability","tag-ux"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}