Thoughts

Yay! We’ve got our own testing facility in Bristol. Well we’ve had it for a while but too busy using it to remember to tell anyone.

Colour coding is one of those old chestnuts. It sounds like it ought to make things ‘easier to use’. In most cases it isn’t worth the effort.

But waiting for a delayed train at Paddington Station I sat down at Yo Sushi, where colour coding works.

We think next year is going to see an explosion in mobile internet use (thanks to cheaper tariffs and better handsets). But why wait? If you want to experience mobile web browsing for yourself, then download Opera Mini 4 (beta) - here’s why.

Earnest Hemmingway wrote ‘There’s no friend as loyal as a book’ which made me wonder which books had served me best in the world of usability. Here are my favourites - hopefully you’ll find a gem in this list of old friends.

Getting customers from look to buy is about building trust and desire. Over the years, we’ve spent hours watching and talking to users as they browse and buy.

We’ve picked our top five recommendations that we think can improve any eCommerce website.

I’ve been asked to look at some very complex sites recently.

These are sites where many different users try to complete many different tasks in many different ways. That adds up to… many (cubed).

Other people it seems use PowerPoint in as creative a way as we do.

Crossing the road used to be so easy, you could stroll up to a crossing press the button and wait for the little green man to appear in front of you, whilst your peripheral vision took care of psycho cyclists and amber gamblers.
That was all because the little green man was waiting for […]

Again thanks to Colse for this, where does he find them…

Really interesting and logical musical interface. Based around 16 beats. I wonder is they’ve got a 12*12 grid for a nice Waltz?