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Category: readability

efficiency/grouping/readability/Super U

Supermarket receipt with categories

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Alex Poole

While on holiday I spotted another small yet great innovation for an everyday object. Here's a supermarket receipt with the products you bought, not listed simp...

communication/Eurostar/feedback/readability/user experience

Lazy Eurostar confirmation message with 12 conditional clauses

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Alex Poole

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...

readability/reading

12 tips on writing for the web

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Alex Poole

We know from research about how users read on the web that they don't 'read' - they scan, so web pages should be written to support this. Here are my 12 tips fo...

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