When working to redesign the playlist interface for youtube, there was a definite difference between the mental model and actual workings of the interface.
The users saw the list of videos as the actual videos, wanting to edit and remove the list to personalize the list of videos for themselves. For the users, the playlists were simply recommendations from the playlist author but they wanted to further change the playlist to fit their wants and needs. This however was in much contrast to how the actual playlist list was actually implemented into the website. The playlist is simply a list created from a database storing the order of videos and the location of the videos to stream in order. There was no "loading" of the videos so there was no ability to change the order take videos out of the list.
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