![]() You can discover that the icons exist, but you have to do trial and error to see what each one does.Įven the audio up and down icons are somewhat inscrutable. Most icons, when not matched with words, are low understanding. There are very few icons in the world that are universally understood, and the ones here aren’t it.Įven ones that you think would be pretty straightforward for a music device are a little hard to make out. On the signifier front, Sonos could do a better job of labeling their icons. There is nothing to pop out or anything complicated. Sonos also made the handle very obvious to use. It’s also subtly done so that you only see it and feel it when you need it. Sonos even built in a handle on the Move to make it easy to move around and to encourage you to move the Move all over. I know that some people are wary of voice assistance, but voice is a great control mechanism, particularly for music, and it has some big accessibility implications. This is nailing all of the affordances that a user would want in 2019. You can play music and control the Move with the Sonos app (on touchscreen and desktop devices), with voice, or with controls on the speakers themselves. Sonos really harnesses affordances well with the Move. I am constantly critiquing the design of products for lessons for my students, and I want to bring those lessons here. I’m also a professor at the University of Maryland in user-centered design and human-computer interaction. Any review without a rubric is just kind of a random person’s opinion. But is it well designed?Īll of my reviews use the Design Critique Rubric and the Guidelines for Thoughtful Product Design. The Sonos Move is an impressive portable speaker from its spec sheet, to its size, to its price, to its many capabilities.
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