It looks a little like there should be a switch ‘I’m not colour blind’ somewhere in the interface, to enable colour icons again. I thought one of the basic tools used by UI designers in differentiating interface elements was: colour. Maybe it will grow on me, but first impressions of the new iTunes 10 interface are: very unimpressive.
What were Apple thinking with new iTunes 10 greyscale interface?
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The album list view with a hybrid of list and album view is working out pretty well for me, but you’re right that the greyscale icons don’t really make sense.
Yes eventually I’ll learn to use it better, but I think Apple is overly driven by the urge to go minimally simple such that they’ve lost touch of what they’re good at. Think of the last generation of iPod Shuffle, they just went too far with the minimalistic approach—a lesson that they’ve learnt and brought back the buttons this time round.