Showing posts with label ux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ux. Show all posts
29 November 2012

Web-design HowNotTo

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Seen recently on a mailing-list I receive: > These guys stock 29mm Crown Caps http://www.africancork.co.za Went off to take a look at...
05 November 2012

Google Groups: The Orphan Child

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It's been quite a while, now, since Google rearranged the menus providing links to their various sites and tools. And right from the sta...
23 May 2011

Web Site Passwords

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"Signing up" for yet another something-social-facebook-wannabe website, I was struck by a random Thought Particle. Why do all th...
21 June 2010

Nedbank Service Fail

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<span style="font-style: italic;">Rant ahead. Feel free to leave now.<br /><br />No, really! This is just whini...
24 February 2010

Invalid Field Feedback Failure

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Random musing on UI misdesign A particular egregious error (seen in websites too numerous to list) is to validate a form, rejecting some f...
18 February 2010

MIA: Google News Upgrades

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When is Google going to upgrade Google News? I don't mean anything too radical... I really, really don't want people clicking new...
11 February 2010

User Interface Redesigns

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I love this quote by E. A. Vander Veer in " Why Does Facebook Keep Redesigning? " typically users aren't considered at all whe...
03 July 2008

Power to the Purple

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A week of power-supply problems. Not Eskom's fault, this time, but more localised failures. First the power-supply for the network ser...
03 June 2008

UI Design Encourages Mistakes, Boosts Profits

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Having just finished my banking and tax admin for the month, I fire up the bank's online system to fork the money over to the various la...
26 March 2008

SABC's website sucks

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Email to info@ SABC .co.za: "Why does SABC's website suck so badly when viewed in Firefox? "Not to mention that it is com...
23 February 2008

As BAD as Some can be, Others can be GREAT

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We interrupt the on-going diatribe between my self and Datapro/Vox Telecom [1] to bring you Good News for Modern Persons . In the superm...
29 April 2007

5 Trust Points for Website Usability

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For a while now I've been working (slowly) on a new web application; the details are unimportant; I'll talk about the specifics in ...
10 March 2007

Great Tools, Great Times

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Just as much as some software is a pain in the arse to work with (even though it may be totally essential) on the other side of the coin we...
06 March 2007

Software That Makes You Angry

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Isn't it peculiar?  Some pieces of software are actually an almost physical pleasure to use.  Others make one actively angry .  Or is th...
15 July 2006

Goodbye (again!) to Flash

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Finally I got pissed-off enough to remove Flash from all my PCs.  For a long, long time I resisted installing Flash, because all I had ever ...
22 May 2006

Front Door Syndrome

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Ever on the lookout for god and bad ideas in software user-interface design, here is one on LinkedIn really blows me away. Its a classic ca...