Go car Two seats, three wheels and it talks. The GPS-enabled Go Car in Lisbon, Portugal. Sight-seers use these small electric vehicles to travel around Portugal’s capital city and the GPS-aware commentary system tells you about all the places of interest on your route. Further information on the Go Car website. More
School of everything Congratulations to those behind School of Everything which had its official launch yesterday from Channel 4’s headquarters in Horseferry Road, London. School of Everything is based on the simplest of ideas – that “everyone has something to learn, and everyone has something to teach.” It’s a little like a dating agency, though I’m not sure... More
Another accidental pattern? I get strangely excited when I encounter accidental patterns, such as the 37 bus passing the 63. My mind just makes the connection. I can’t explain it, but it’s almost as if my mind is trying to find patterns in everything. So imagine my surprise when I recently received my membership confirmation for the Usability... More
Stopped smoking? Have a “TED break” If you’ve quit smoking and you’re wondering what to do with your extra 30 minutes at work every day, why not spend 18 of them watching one of the many great talks on TED (technology, entertainment, design). This week TED clocked up 50 million viewings. Jill Bolte Taylor’s talk (below) is the most watched. I... More
One card-reader fits all for online banking 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 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 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 TED Talk: Tod Machover & Dan Ellsey: Releasing the music in your head Via Joe Lazarus via Scobleizer on Twitter. More
SharePoint and Web Accessibility 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 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