One card-reader fits all for online banking By Nic Price on 9 May 2008 — 1 min read Good news if you do online banking with several different banks. You only need one card-reader. The card-readers are all the same bar the branding. So if you bank with Barclays, NatWest, Nationwide, RBS and no doubt others too, you can get away with only carrying one card-reader around with you. I’ve tried it with... More
Talking of tabs By Nic Price on 30 April 2008 — 1 min read Make someone’s day! Tell them they can use the Tab key on their keyboard to move through a web-page. To those who already know, it seems obvious, taken for granted. But if you’ve ever watched people filling out boxes on forms on banking websites or when setting up an account on a website using the... More
Quick user research tip: Open All in Tabs By Nic Price on 30 April 2008 — 1 min read We’ve been running some design research sessions which involve several scenarios, each of which uses a slightly different design version for a website. Each scenario has its own starting page, each of which we put in a different tab in Firefox. This means setting up all the tabs and start pages for each research session.... More
Musical inspiration By Nic Price on 21 April 2008 — 1 min read TED Talk: Tod Machover & Dan Ellsey: Releasing the music in your head Via Joe Lazarus via Scobleizer on Twitter. More
SharePoint and Web Accessibility By Nic Price on 18 April 2008 — 1 min read According to Bruce Lawson, a web accessibility expert working in the legal sector, Sharepoint fails to meet one of the priority 1 requirements (which must be met), and breaks some priority two requirements (which should be met). See Bruce Lawson’s personal site : SharePoint and Web Accessibility. More
Keep the change By Nic Price on 4 April 2008 — 1 min read A good reason not to move entirely to virtual money… I thought the six coins could make up a shield by arranging the coins both horizontally, as with the landscape idea, as well as vertically, in a sort of jigsaw style. I liked the idea and symbolism of using the Royal Arms, where individually the... More
e-learning: SCORM resources on the web By Nic Price on 2 April 2008 — 1 min read SCORM stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model. It’s a widely adopted and internationally recognised standard for tracking progress in online learning. It was first developed by ADL in the United States in 1999. The current release is SCORM 2004, though most large LMS vendors currently conform for to SCORM 1.2. At the BBC, back... More
My Dad’s running the London Marathon and raising money for Myeloma UK By Nic Price on 18 March 2008 — 1 min read This year on Sunday 13th April, my Dad is running in the London Marathon. He’s a London Marathon veteran, but this is his first since breaking a bone in his neck two years ago in a near fatal fall while walking in the Swiss Alps. This year he’s raising money for the cancer charity Myeloma... More
The new look BBC homepage and Gestalt By Nic Price on 3 March 2008 — 1 min read Generally I like the new look BBC homepage which officially went live last week after a couple of months in “beta”. It’s got most of what I want: news, weather, listings – the iplayer link could be more visible. Redesigns are rarely straightforward to get right. I’ve overseen a few in my time. You’re damned... More