Enhancing the UI design of iTunes’ ‘Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps’

In this first article in a new category of entries ‘Design it better’, I’m going to take things, usually websites or applications, I’ve used or seen that have potential, but could be designed in a better way.

I’m also going to provide an insight into some of the thinking that went in to the design enhancement so you can see why it was necessary. While the example is trivial and the solution obvious, you’ll see there are other solutions that could have been used, and why the selected one is better.

The first thing I’m going to cover is a new feature found in iTunes 9.1 called ‘Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps’.

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