It's like iTunes for...
Sometimes it seems like every app is trying to be "the iTunes for <insert subject here>". I've worked on an app that fits into this category, and there are countless more. iTunes 1.0 represents one of the biggest shifts in Mac user interface design we've seen — single window, source list, and smart groups.
While the iTunes UI is great for music, I'm not convinced it's automatically great for all workflows.
Clipstart goes out of its way to do something different, by twisting the traditional source list a little to promote tags as the most important part of the UI. At first I feared that some customers would find it worse, that the UI would fail and I would be forced to become more iTunes-ish for the next version. But I think only by trying something different can you hope to be better. I've been using Clipstart to manage my movies all year and the tag-focused UI really works, especially when you start building up your library and can search and find related tags across all your videos.
I released Clipstart 1.1.1 a few days ago with a bunch of bug fixes, and an iPhone 3GS giveaway too.
July 23, 2009 02:26 PM [link] -
