Right now, there are around 20 people on the design team, including our creative director, several product designers, a few interaction designers, two interns, and two design researchers. We’re growing fast, too, and looking to add another 10 or so folks in the coming months.

The @design team is a distributed team within the company, meaning nearly every designer sits with his or her team. For instance, our designers on the Clients teams sit with those engineers and PMs.

If you’d like a bit more details, feel free to email me and I’d be happy to share a bit more.

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Because it is redundant.  There is nothing you can accomplish with a stop button that can’t already be done using the pause, menu, next track, and/or previous track buttons.

This is not the case with media players that are physically interacting with their storage, such as VCR’s or DVD players.  According to ecoustics.com [1]:

On a VHS machine, pausing the tape kept the same segment of tape rubbing against the playback drum, which if done for a long enough time could wear that spot in the tape. This could cause any number of picture and sound hiccups, or worse, cause the tape to break.

With a DVD, there’s little mechanical difference between pause and stop unless you keep it paused for more than a few minutes, after which a stopped DVD motor will spin down but a paused one will continue to run [1].

[1] http://www.ecoustics.com/tl/14092/

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