Posted by Tommy on 10 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Bad design, Humor, Usability
I was recently working on a minor flash teaser trailer for some e-learning.
While playing with the flash I didn’t have sound on my machine so assumed the buttons at the bottom of the trailer were sound controls. As it wasn’t clear what they were for, I asked the supplier what they did and advised that [...]
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Posted by Tommy on 02 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Bad design, Humor, Usability
I’ve just discovered this site: User centered, which “studies the design of every day things”, and it got me thinking:
Is it possible for a bed to suffer from poor usability? I ask, because I think mine does. Not in the truest sense, in that it is perfectly comfortable and I don’t particularly suffer from poor [...]
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Posted by Tommy on 06 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Humor, The World
This photo was taken, not in my wife’s handbag closet as you may have thought, but from a stall in the amazing grand bazaar market in Istanbul, Turkey.
From Picassa
Obviously my wife was very impressed with what she saw so took the photo, looks like something out of a travel guide don’t you think?
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Posted by Tommy on 28 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Humor, Web Development
Web 2.0 is an interesting subject; currently I am very tempted to tell customers that we haven’t ‘upgraded to it yet’ and are still in the Web 1.0 world when confronted with pointless requests for Wikis or Blogs. I don’t, not just because I would be talking rubbish, but mainly because I am more concerned [...]
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