Whilst messing about with my mother’s business website I stumbled upon a very old incarnation of my first personal site. Enjoy, though the design is classic-retro (but seems to hold together well in newer browsers) and obviously some of the links are now broken!
Category Archives: Humor
BBC News
Posted by Tommy on June 9, 2009
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Do you think these two stories from BBC News are related?
Crowded tube
Posted by Tommy on May 22, 2009
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When a buttons is not a button!
Posted by Tommy on December 10, 2008
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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 a label along the lines of ‘sound controls:’ would be required.
I received the immortal reply:
‘Not all the buttons are functional, some are purely graphical’
It beggars belief – this trailer was actually provided by a design agency!
My bed…
Posted by Tommy on June 2, 2008
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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 sleep, however, I do seem to be stubbing my toe on its out-turned legs with worryingly regularity. My wife said that if I was a monkey I would have learnt by now! Maybe its just my big feet.
Photo to follow.
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