Archives for “User interfaces”

If you have web apps like travel booking systems or services like discussion forums running on your intranet you already have personalisation. Whether it's any ...


Count your opinions

Count your opinions Originally uploaded by Beatnic. So I thought I'd add my input to the survey being run by ...


IT Conversations

Don't be put off by the name! If you're interested in anything vaguely related to technology there's something to listen to here. I finally started catching up ...


Intranet vibes

I've said it before and I'll say it again... Netvibes is quite simply everything an intranet (homepage) needs to be. As well as being a great ...


It's an aura thing. Internet users make up their minds about the quality of a website in the blink of an eye, a study shows. Researchers [from ...


Macintosh-style interaction design has reached its limits. A new paradigm, called results-oriented UI, might well be the way to empower users in the future. In his ...


Several times recently I've been describing walks and runs to people and thought wouldn't it be great to be able to plot them out on ...


After completing online transactions I often find myself in a cul-de-sac. There are some notable exceptions, but most sites I've used are missing a trick. Often ...


You are here

Yes, but how did I get here? Yesterday I went to the Design Museum in London with some friends from work to see the design of ...


Good to pub

Adaptonyms (also known as textonyms and cellodromes) are words that can be typed with the same sequence of keys on a cell phone using predictive ...


Where to put stuff

Chatting to my friend Claire earlier about having cleared my inbox thanks to Mark Hurst's very handy guide to Managing incoming email. We talked about how, ...


Loosability

Buttons to operate toilet door on board train today... Just wondering... how do you know when it's locked?


Getting there…

I'm starting to narrow in on what to write about when I do my Masters At the moment it's looking like: The application of Gestalt theory in ...


"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union." Frank Lloyd Wright, US Architect, 1867-1959 Many everyday ...


6 degrees

Flickr Graph is a brilliant use of the Flickr API concept Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of ...


Fontastic

Just came across this nifty gizmo called What the font?! - nice idea, very easy to use, and it works pretty well If you want to ...


Chip and PIN

Chip and PIN as a method of payment has been in the UK for a couple of months now, and according to all the major ...


If content is king…

...context is god! Now... which categories to put this post in? :-)


This from razorhead's blog which I stumbled on the other day and is well worth a read. There are five types of road crossing in use ...