Tag Archives: User interfaces

Intranet personalisation: good or bad?

Posted on 2 October 2007 by Nic Price

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 good is down to how well it’s designed and presented and how it feels to … Continue reading →

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Count your opinions

Posted on 30 August 2007 by Nic Price

Count your opinions Originally uploaded by Beatnic. So I thought I’d add my input to the survey being run by London Underground on personal safety at Elephant & Castle tube station. Unfortunately I didn’t understand how to use this “Opinionmeter” … Continue reading →

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IT Conversations

Posted on 16 July 2007 by Nic Price

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 with some of my blog, news and podcast subscriptions recently and that coincided … Continue reading →

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Intranet vibes

Posted on 20 April 2007 by Nic Price

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 way of managing all my stuff on the internet of course.

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Your site may never get a second chance to make a first impression

Posted on 16 January 2006 by Nic Price

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 Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada] found that the brain makes decisions in just … Continue reading →

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WYSIWYG is dead, long live WYGIWYS

Posted on 10 October 2005 by Nic Price

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 latest alertbox, Jakob Nielsen explains how the concept of what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) is no longer … Continue reading →

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Google map pins – joining the dots

Posted on 30 June 2005 by Nic Price

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 the amazing Google maps service. It already does a great job with routes from A … Continue reading →

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What next? Missing a trick with online transactions

Posted on 22 June 2005 by Nic Price

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 the only options are to return to a previous page or close the window … Continue reading →

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You are here

Posted on 11 May 2005 by Nic Price

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 information exhibition “YOU ARE HERE” (now in its last week). It was full of … Continue reading →

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Good to pub

Posted on 16 April 2005 by Nic Price

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 text. For example the sequence “2-3-3″ can produce “bed”, “add”, or “bee”. Source: Wikipedia Yesterday … Continue reading →

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