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 27 May 2008 | Tagged as: Usability
I haven’t written in a while, mainly because of a new house, painting and a patio!
Frequently Asked Questions, they seem to be the bain of my life. There seems to be a continued obsession with creating site content purely based around (usually un)frequently asked questions. Interestingly user interviews do quite often throw up FAQs as [...]
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Posted by Tommy on 10 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Accessibility, Usability, Web Development
Internet security is always top of the agenda and new security technology is continually being released. Although first coined in 2000 CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) technology has only really become more prominent over the last couple of years. CAPTCHA attempts to distinguish between a computer and human [...]
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Posted by Tommy on 20 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Usability
I have always been a proponent of the don’t use “Click Here’s” for links rule. The idea that links which don’t clearly tell the user where they are going are confusing to users and should be replaced with more descriptive links; ideally identical to the title of the page or document being linked to. A [...]
