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Help shape a new application and earn £40 for just 30 mins of your time
We’re at the early stages of developing an interesting new application and have a few ideas that we’d like some feedback on.
If you have a spare half hour on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday next week (4,5,6 August) and are in or near central London and you’re interested in helping out, read on!
We’re looking for a [...]
The general public myth (or, the whole world is not your user)
This feels like pretty basic stuff to me, but it’s incredibly important not to overlook the basics, so let’s talk about it.
I was prompted to think about this again when taking questions after talking at the GUADEC conference in Istanbul recently and someone asked about how you design a good experience when you’re designing for [...]
Research Participants Required! Are you interested in Culture, Science, History, Art and more?
Are you interested in Culture, Science, History, Art and more? - share your thoughts and earn £60
We’re working on an exciting project with nine major British museums and need some people who are into their culture, art, science, history - basically the kind of stuff you can learn about at museums - to help us [...]
Heathrow Terminal 5 - Another rant about respecting conventions
This seems to be my theme at the moment. Respect conventions.
Respecting conventions doesn’t mean that you have to slavishly follow them, that would be boring and unnecessary, BUT if you *are* going to break with convention then make sure it is very well sign posted, otherwise people will make mistakes.
I give you terminal 5 at [...]
Some unformed thoughts on Ambient Intimacy for the next generation
My little boy is six months old tomorrow. I’ve been thinking a lot, since he’s been around, about what the world looks like to him now, what it might be like in the future, and trying to understand how his little brain develops and turns him into a real little person (incredibly quickly, as it [...]
Thoughtless design is going to cost me money… (or, why you shouldn’t ignore conventions)
Here is a new phone we got the other day. It’s our landline phone. Pretty cute huh? It’s called the Aqua by BT. Don’t buy it. I paid about £100 for a set of these phones. They are going to cost me a lot more than that in no time.
Here’s the thing. How do you [...]
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