Spotted what I thought was an amazing offer the other day on the Guardian : Turns out it was €1 per child – and children under 4 don’t pay anyway. Thanks for nothing Eurostar!
Continue reading →I just chose my seats for a trip to London – but despite the Eurostar site knowing the exact number of seats, passengers, and journeys involved, it was too lazy to show an appropriately worded confirmation.
Continue reading →This cinema app from Allocine injects a bit of humour into an otherwise humdrum error message. Quite appropriate really, since Sean Bean is known for his bad luck…
Continue reading →Placing the bag hook on the door frame means that you have to take your bags before you can open the door
Continue reading →Do you remember the card game Top Trumps, where you beat your opponent’s hand with a card that outranks it in some capacity? Well, in UX you can play a version of this where instead of carefully crafting the visual weight and placement of each element in your design to take into account the relative […]
Continue reading →A quick reminder of severity ratings – these ones are adapted from ‘Usability severity codes’ in Usability & Technical Documentation, Xerox Corporation, July 1995. One point to remember – if you are developing applications for internal use in an organisation, you can often downgrade the severity of issues as there is no competition if users […]
Continue reading →I just received this email apparently from Google asking me to update my some of Google Wallet account details. Turns out that’s it’s genuine, but why did they make it look so much like a phishing attempt? There are 3 classic signs: The subject line doesn’t have my name in it: “Important Information about Your […]
Continue reading →User experience (UX) is a convergence of many disciplines. It goes beyond making something just easy to use or visually pleasing, but looks after all the aspects of a person’s interaction with a product or service – and most importantly, how they feel about using it. All these forces need to work together to present […]
Continue reading →This little flag tells you how much time left to read till the end of the article. I don’t know if it’s pandering to people with low attention spans, but I like it anyway. See it in action here: http://informationarchitects.net/blog/responsive-typography-the-basics/.
Continue reading →Using redundancy in design is vital when conveying critical information. In this icon project I added features that would help the meaning of the symbol survive the shift to black and white, bad monitors, or bad eyesight.
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