Whilst preparing for my upcoming trip to God’s Own County I was curious to see if Hull Paragon station caters for the needs of the left luggage community. On checking this out via the National Rail website I came across this rather confusing iconography:
I’ll take that as a “No” then, shall I? (reminds me of this inspiring piece of apparel: YEAH BUT NO Apron)
(* please excuse this lame pun but visting relatives abroad, a new job and looking for a new flat is currently keeping me from updating on a regular basis)
Posted in General Chatter
Webmontag Köln aus der zu spät zugeschalteten Perspektive (Flickr)
Originally uploaded by halfman.halfpixel.
Posted in Cologne, Event, The Interweb, Video
Tagged bandwidth, Cologne, Köln, livestream, mogulus, webmontag, webmontag20080825
The winners of the above mentioned competition were announced on Jakob Nielsen’s website today.
Being used to some terrible user interfaces from work I found most of the winners really well designed, with a contemporary feel & clever concept to them.
What usability sifu Nielsen did not include are the direct URLs for the winners (as he for some reason tends not to do quite often- except for links to his reports which you have to pay for that is…)
Ah well, it’s a dirty job but someone has to do it… So here goes, as far as I am concerned in no particular order other than alphabetical:
SugarSync (My personal favourite)
Actually that’s a top 9, I didn’t list the Magellan Network’s Seating Management up there as I found their website rather disappointing and not very informative.
Posted in The Interweb, Design, Usability
Tagged Usability, Jakob Nielsen, useit, UI, GUI, Top 10, competition, applications, URL
Matt Balara has asked some of the “top faces” in webdesign to come up with clever answers to the question “What’s design mean to you?”
Below please find what Andy Budd has to say – I find it remarkable and somewhat re-assuring that he is stressing design to be first and foremost about problem solving which is exactly what was rammed down my throat during my degree and emphasized in Bob Gill’s lecture in Leeds quite some time ago.
Posted in Design, General Chatter, Uni, Usability, Video
Tagged Andy Budd, Design, Interview, Matt Balara
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