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Category Archives: Usability
Worst practice: 10 ways that Sutton Council’s website (still) drives me nuts
UPDATE 1 March 2010: Let’s see how the site’s doing seven months after I originally published this article. Someone famous once said that the true definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the results … Continue reading
Some pleas to reduce WordPress misery
How WordPress can become blog software again rather than a compromised “publishing platform”. Continue reading
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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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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The fallacies of summary-only RSS feeds
Please don’t tease. Put your full article texts in your RSS feed and make everyone’s life a whole lot easier. Continue reading
Too much information
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Simplicity, Software design, Usability
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