My five minute talk on analogy at UX Bristol By Nic Price on 10 October 2011 — 1 min read At the end of the excellent UX Bristol back in July, a few of us gave 5 minute talks. These talks are now available to watch online. I talked about how – when I was running the intranet at the BBC back in 2005 – I was inspired by the transformation programme at London’s South... More
Araucaria crossword By Nic Price on 30 March 2011 — 1 min read Araucaria crossword I was lucky enough to get my very own Araucaria crossword for a significant birthday last year. A brilliant present from my parents. And here it is… many – though not all – the clues are connected with me and my life. More
Beatnic font By Nic Price on 12 July 2010 — 1 min read I made a font based on my handwriting for use in my digital sketches and e-learning. Here’s a sample: It’s rough and ready, a little uneven on the baseline, and limited to A-Z caps and lower case, plus numbers 0-9 and a few other characters – but quite handy for keeping things looking sketchy. (At... More
Social networking on intranets – have a problem to solve, and expect it to take time, says Jakob Nielsen By Nic Price on 4 August 2009 — 1 min read Here are the findings from usability “guru” Jakob Nielsen’s report on Social Networking on Intranets… Underground efforts yield big results. Companies are turning a blind eye to underground social software efforts until they prove their worth, and then sanctioning them within the enterprise. Frontline workers are driving the vision. Often, senior managers aren’t open... More
Be careful, sometimes the writing really is on the wall By Nic Price on 8 July 2009 — 1 min read Imagine my surprise the other day when I walked past a meeting room and read the words: “How to tell the team the bad news“ Alright, that’s made up. But I have seen several rather over-revealing meeting titles on my way down various corridors recently. Technology for setting up meetings is getting pretty sophisticated these... More
Communities – start simple, don’t over-design By Nic Price on 1 April 2009 — 1 min read Social notworking In 2002 we built something on the BBC’s intranet called “Learning Online”. I was working with an amazing team of forward-thinking and innovative people. We designed Learning Online to be the intranet home for BBC employees to manage their personal development, training and career development. Alongside e-learning, personal development planning and a personalised... More
What is Twitter? By Nic Price on 15 December 2008 — 1 min read Twitter is used in many different ways. As @dulwichmum says, its nearest equivalent that people are familiar with is Facebook status updates. Twitter updates, or “tweets” as they are sometimes called, are limited in length to 140 characters. Apart from that, there are no rules about how to use Twitter. Some people use it to... More
Robin Good at leweb: 12 things we must learn to do really well By Nic Price on 11 December 2008 — 1 min read Thanks to Peter Bihr aka thewavingcat on Twitter I was able to sit in on some of Loic Lemeur‘s Leweb this week via Berlinbase.de, a livestreaming mashup of video and text updates. One talk that caught my attention was by Robin Good who is MasterNewMedia. He asked people about what learning really meant to them... More
Double espresso – Wesabe By Nic Price on 11 December 2008 — 1 min read Things I’ve been getting excited about recently over a double espresso… Wesabe I’ve been looking for easy ways to track what I’m spending. Mint.com comes highly recommended but wouldn’t let me in without a US zip code (at the time of writing). So I went on the prowl for some alternatives. After some research, checking... More
Double espresso – Last.fm By Nic Price on 11 December 2008 — 1 min read Inspired by Tom Coombs’s recent “Have you seen…?” post, here are some of the things I’ve been banging on about recently over a double espresso. First… Last.fm Last FM Last.fm plays you music while you’re online. It can create your own personalised radio station based the music you like, using its audioscrobbler music recommendation system.... More