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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Fixing Sutton Council’s usability with Greasemonkey
How to fix the link colours, clock/calendar and text size on Sutton Council’s website with a Greasemonkey user script. Continue reading
Posted in Sutton, Usability, Web design
Tagged Better Sutton Council, Greasemonkey, Sutton Council, Sutton Council website
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Permalinks — a guide for the perplexed at Sutton Council
How Sutton Council have broken all the links to their new website and how they can prevent this linkrot in future by using permalinks. Continue reading
Posted in Sutton, Usability, Web design
Tagged Sutton Council, Sutton Council website, websites
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Morden town centre regeneration consultation — a Plain English summary
Merton Council are running a consultation called moreMorden until 10 October 2008 on outline proposals for regenerating Morden town centre. What follows is my summary of the main consultation document (PDF) and its supporting fact sheet (PDF). I don’t work … Continue reading
Estimating upload and download times with Google Calculator
While this won’t be news to some, most people still don’t know that you can use the standard Google search box as a sophisticated calculator and unit conversion tool. So if you type: 2 * 3 into the search box, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged broadband speeds, Google, Google Calculator, unit conversions
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Parsimonious design (or not)
In which we explore the parsimony principle in design with reference to two horribly over-engineered ideas: the Segway personal transporter and ebook readers. Continue reading
Posted in Design theory, Product design
Tagged Amazon Kindle, ebook readers, ebooks, parsimony, Segway, Sony Reader
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The features you have vs. the features you use
Of the 21 features on my phone, I use just five. Can’t someone make a phone without all the rest? Continue reading
Posted in Design theory, Product design, Simplicity, Uncategorized
Tagged iPhone, mobile phones, Nokia 1100, phones
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Reboxing videos
We need reboxing videos to show us how to get our tech toys back in their boxes. Continue reading
Estimated date of birth — an interaction design pattern
How to avoid asking people for their date of birth when you don’t need it but still gain enough data to be able to produce meaningful age segmentations. Continue reading
Posted in Design theory, Software design, Uncategorized, Usability, Web design
Tagged ages, birthdays, database design, dates of birth, form design, surveys
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