Dodgy information design By Nic Price on 3 November 2005 — 1 min read Here’s something to mark World Usability Day. Boots does a thing called Meal Deal which means for a fixed price you can get a sandwich, drink and snack/dessert. There are two types of meal deal, one where the products are marked with a red circle and the slightly more expensive option which uses a green... More
Google base: another step towards global domination By Nic Price on 2 November 2005 — 1 min read If you add in every small business in the world – and believe me, Google is thinking that way – you can sum up Google’s ambitions in the commercial world as this: the company would like to provide a platform that mediates supply and demand for pretty much the entire world economy. John Battelle in... More
WYSIWYG is dead, long live WYGIWYS By Nic Price on 10 October 2005 — 1 min read Macintosh-style interaction design has reached its limits. A new paradigm, called results-oriented UI, might well be the way to empower users in the future. In his latest alertbox, Jakob Nielsen explains how the concept of what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) is no longer useful or valid and is evolving into what-you-get-is-what-you-see (WYGIWYS) or “results-oriented UI [user interface].” He... More
Google reader By Nic Price on 8 October 2005 — 1 min read I’ve been trying out the newly launched Google reader, which I was alerted to via my Bloglines subscription to a Google blog – oh my aren’t we just sooo post-modern 😉 You need a Google account (gmail address) to use it. Like gmail it makes extensive use of ajax for screen-based rather than page-based interactions.... More
We won an award :) By Nic Price on 7 October 2005 — 1 min read Sarah, Andy and I picked up the Best Intranet Award for Best Content, awarded to the BBC for it’s intranet Gateway which we all work on. Pictured with Paul Miller, Chairman of the Intranet Benchmarking Forum. More
Google calendar imminent? By Nic Price on 4 October 2005 — 1 min read I’ve been looking for some open source calendar software to sit alongside my blog for my own personal use and to share if useful one or two event categories with friends and family Having just read that a google calendar might be with us within a month, I might just wait and see what it... More
Matt’s notes on the first Cognitive Design Congress … By Nic Price on 23 September 2005 — 1 min read … have really whetted my appetite for his long-hand interpretation coming soon. More
Treat others as you would like to be treated By Nic Price on 17 September 2005 — 1 min read To promote their tv series The New Ten Commandments, shown in February 2005, Channel Four commissioned this sulpture by Sokari Douglas Camp. It’s called “The 11th Commandment”. It represents the most popular new commandment as chosen by the British public: “Treat others as you would like to be treated” (see also British Humanist Assocation on... More
The intranet is dead, long live the intranet By Nic Price on 9 September 2005 — 2 mins read It never really existed anyway. It’s no longer useful to call it the intranet. It’s just a concept. Everyone has a different idea of what the word means. That adds complexity. That means risk. As an idea, a construct, it’s been useful, but moving forward it’s more of a hindrance. Who does it serve to... More
Drag and drop Europe By Nic Price on 26 August 2005 — 1 min read How well do you know your European countries? Try dragging and dropping 45 countries to their correct places on the European map in this Flash-based online learning game. You have to be pretty accurate to get a right answer and there are no country outlines to help, only land and sea. I got 35 on... More