It’s become de rigeur for blogs to publish lists of advice, or rules to live by gained from the author’s years of experience. After reading several of these, I’ve compiled my own list, a much shorter version. Don’t take advice/rules lists too seriously, they’re all made up of people’s personal experiences and aren’t law. Empathy [...]
Category Archives: Usability
Follow or Hide
Twitter has a new feature, similar to the Facebook recommend feature, where they recommend people you might want to follow. An acquaintance summed it up as, and I paraphrase from memory: “recommending people I’ve already chosen not to follow”. Out of curiosity I’ve been checking through their recommendations just to see if I’ve missed anyone, [...]
Rewards card wallet
So I was thinking about why my wallet is wearing a patch in my jeans, and I realize it’s because I am carrying about 20 cards, the majority of which I don’t necessarily need to carry, I just need the number. From there I figured the ideal way to fix this would be a phone [...]
Idea: Television subscription service
It seems that my household is all the time getting closer to a cable television alternative, but never quite crossing the bridge. We have an Apple TV we use to purchase movies and television series, a Mac Mini with a huge hard drive we play DVDs through, and save our existing movies and television series [...]
Idea: Helpful terms and conditions
One of the usability issues that never seems to be solved is how sites send their non-marketing information to users. These are the little tiny text links normally found at the bottom of the page, the Terms & Conditions and Privacy statements. Not only are these hidden away, they are written in the most awful [...]
