5. Familiarity

The iTunes metaphor

The GATHERER interface was designed with an iTunes metaphor in mind, making it very familiar to our target population:

  1. data is organized in GATHERER like it is in iTunes
  2. collections in GATHERER map to playlists in iTunes.
  3. searching in GATHERER is similar to searching in iTunes
  4. queries in GATHERER are stored like iTunes "smart" folders

Automated Tasks

Tasks are automated for the user to make this integration easier.

  1. Updating the Craigslist listing.
  2. Updating the Green information about the listing.
  3. Users are updated of assigned tasks.