CD player UI for toddlers

[Karl Anderson]

"Jim Whitehead" <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu> writes:

> The CD player we have combines play and pause in a single button, but
> doesn't provide *instantaneous* feedback that the button was pushed, instead
> requiring you to wait until the music starts, 5-10 seconds. This is a UI
> disaster. Since Tatum doesn't get feedback right away, she presses the
> button again, thereby pausing the CD before it even plays. She'll only ever
> get music if she presses the button an odd number of times. This happens a
> surprising amount of the time, since she eventually hits the button again
> when the music doesn't play.

Nice to hear that somebody else does this too.

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Karl Anderson      kra@monkey.org           http://www.monkey.org/~kra/