Questioning if price is everything: The moral low-ground of price comparison.
So, uSwitch are in a bit of trouble. It appears that there may have been an attempt to encourage users of their site to switch providers by artificially presenting the results. To me this highlights a...
View ArticleIpswich Murders
It's late at night and as I sit here typing away on my blog I'm waiting for my fiancee to arrive back from a Christmas party. Ordinarily these things are par for the course at this time of year and yet...
View ArticleA provincial town reflects on the news
Tim Fenton, an Ipswich local and BBC journo reflects on the effect of the recent events in Ipswich on the townspeople: "Community faces unwanted glare"I used to love going for a run in Levington in the...
View ArticleLegal Websites Failing To Make The Grade
Got passed a link to a page on legal gossip site rollonfriday (ROF) today which exposes some dreadful websites. Firstly, the incomprehensibly bad Fletcher Lewis site. Explore the solicitor profiles by...
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Welcome to 2007, Person of the Year, and welcome back monster workloads.
What with freelance work and two major projects at The Company I am royally snowed-under en ce moment so apologies for the lack of posts. I've had plenty of thoughts and continue to archive random...
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Visual Guides for Tube Tourists
Two posts today, though I’m separating them so that their headers stand out as separate articles … gotta think SEO …First is a bit of a cop out. A guy at The Company writes an intranet blog with a...
View ArticleSupporting Common Pathways And Increasing Simplicity Through Disclosure
Progressive disclosure is a nice term don’t you think? Seems kinda academic when you first read it and then it rather becomes clear, progressively disclosing itself, metaphorically revealing the...
View ArticleCoffee Barometer
Have blogged in the past about coffee at The Company, Marc at Dancingmango and others have been discussing the barometric use of coffee provision to determine how employee-centric your employer is. for...
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Information Architecting The Coffee Shop
As a user experience architect I often get asked what it is exactly that I do. A learned friend once explained to me that if you can’t explain your job to your mum then there’s something wrong. I never...
View ArticleBBC Descend on Wormshill for EastEnders spin-off
Having cleared the psychological log-jam of not posting, I’m now ‘in a place’ where I feel inclined to write a post every five minutes. Sometimes it takes posting an item to make you realise that it’s...
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Documenting the user interface
I recently spent an hour explaining to a potential colleague what it was that our team do. I’ve discussed this recently partly in reference to a recent Design Critique podcast but, as this particular...
View ArticleLost, bothered and bewildered
‘Lost’ has jumped the shark. Back in the halcyon era of “Happy Days” an episode aired in which Fonzie water-ski jumped a shark. Considered the tipping point of the series, this moment has come to be...
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Last Chance Saloon
A group of us at The Company are heading off in September on the infamous Home 2 Rome banger rally. To this end we have 'launched' a site to detail our progress, Last Chance Saloon. It's my first...
View ArticleWedding Dances
Of course, James and Julia Boggio's wedding dance video is a well-known thing at the moment, according to Richard & Judy the subject of "international debate" after it was posted on YouTube. My...
View ArticleMoving on
Morning readers. Just to let you know that I have recently moved house. My fiancee and I are still getting married but work and commuting and the landlady wanting to sell up forced our hand and I've...
View ArticleColin Turkington in-car with TeamRAC BTCC
Pretty good quality in-car footage of Mr. Colin Turkington in the BMW 320 touring car at Thruxton in the BTCCare you a feed reader? cool! email me and let me know what you thought!
View Articlesmorgasbord-design ... three months on
Facebook had started to take over my web time until a week or so ago when I realised I'd not done anything on Last Chance Saloon for a while. Then I realised I'd not posted our wedding website yet...
View ArticleUnwrapping Apple's Packaging Moments of Truth
Regular readers (if there are any left after this ridiculous hiatus) will know that despite my vocational specialism in web user experience, my desire to comment on an array of customer experience...
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The Pervasiveness of the Web
Interface orientated blog Functioning Form have used a recent NY Times article to highlight a seep of web-orientated design onto traditional media. Observing rolling news channels and interactive TV...
View ArticleBuyers aren't always users
At The Company we've just been introduced to a new expenses system. This system for raising personal and business expenses has been deployed to replace the ageing paper-orientated process that existed...
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