Message to online insurance quote websites By Nic Price on 6 November 2005 — 1 min read If there are showstoppers ask them upfront! Don’t let me spend 10 minutes filling in personal details about myself and my other half only to be told that you can’t offer me a quote because of my other half’s profession. I was just trying to get a quote on behalf of a friend who was... More
Onwards and upwards By Nic Price on 5 November 2005 — 1 min read Indoor Climbing Indoor climbing has been including [sic] in the proposals because it is an endurance sport, which is very complementary with cycling and with plenty of crossover between the two. There is currently no indoor climbing centre of regional status in South London. Such a facility is profit making and will attract around 30-50,000... More
If this sounds familiar, here’s a ready-made email By Nic Price on 5 November 2005 — 1 min read Hello I received a letter and voucher ‘wooing’ me back to [Insert company name]. Decided to have a go and the following happened: 1. Tried to key in voucher code when section came up in checkout procedure but was told I needed to book a delivery time first 2. Dutifully continued, booked delivery time and... More
Wikipedia and folksonomy By Nic Price on 4 November 2005 — 1 min read Euan points to a post from Thomas Vander Wal about Folksonomy definition and Wikipedia, in which he talks about how his original definition of Folksonomy (which he clearly re-articulates in the post) has become fuzzy. Just to pick up on one small point. Vander Wal says: Quoting a Wiki entry without pointing to the revision*... More
Momentarily I can be found! By Nic Price on 4 November 2005 — 1 min read Occasionally I search for my name on the web in the vain hope that one day I will no longer be buried beneath hundreds of thousands of prices for network interface cards (NICs). And to my great astonishment that day has arrived (at least on Google anyway)! I had to capture this as no doubt... More
Dodgy information design By Nic Price on 3 November 2005 — 1 min read Here’s something to mark World Usability Day. Boots does a thing called Meal Deal which means for a fixed price you can get a sandwich, drink and snack/dessert. There are two types of meal deal, one where the products are marked with a red circle and the slightly more expensive option which uses a green... More
Google base: another step towards global domination By Nic Price on 2 November 2005 — 1 min read If you add in every small business in the world – and believe me, Google is thinking that way – you can sum up Google’s ambitions in the commercial world as this: the company would like to provide a platform that mediates supply and demand for pretty much the entire world economy. John Battelle in... More
links for 2005-11-01 By Nic Price on 2 November 2005 — 1 min read Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (tags: accessibility w3c guidelines) Web accessibility resources (tags: usability accessibility webcredible web testing guidelines resources) Interaction-Design.org – A site about HCI, Usability, UI Design, User Experience, Information Architecture and more.. Superb resource which I hope to contribute to at some point (tags: hci ia usability userexperience interactiondesign design web) More
links for 2005-10-31 By Nic Price on 1 November 2005 — 1 min read World Usability Day | Making it Easy! Thursday 3rd November is World Usability Day. Check out the map to see what’s going on in your neck of the woods. (tags: usability wud events userexperience design) More