Usability
Some pleas to reduce WordPress misery
13 October 2008
How WordPress can become blog software again rather than a compromised “publishing platform”.
Fixing Sutton Council’s usability with Greasemonkey
29 September 2008
How to fix the link colours, clock/calendar and text size on Sutton Council’s website with a Greasemonkey user script.
Permalinks — a guide for the perplexed at Sutton Council
27 September 2008
How Sutton Council have broken all the links to their new website and how they can prevent this linkrot in future by using permalinks.
Reboxing videos
12 September 2008
We need reboxing videos to show us how to get our tech toys back in their boxes.
Estimated date of birth — an interaction design pattern
9 September 2008
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.
The fallacies of summary-only RSS feeds
4 April 2008
Please don’t tease. Put your full article texts in your RSS feed and make everyone’s life a whole lot easier.
Too much information
21 November 2007
You’d have to get up pretty early in the morning to put one over the system management software that comes with the Acer Aspire 9300.
A jack has been plugged in!
A jack has been unplugged!
Do you think I don’t realise already? Who’s the one doing the plugging and unplugging?
An important usability principle is to conserve the [...]