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
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
Essential intranet reading By Nic Price on 3 January 2008 — 2 mins read Are you involved in intranet (in its broadest possible definition) content, design, management, publishing, thinking, consultancy, evaluation or strategy? What’s on your reading list? I’ll kick off with my blog subscriptions tagged “intranet” in google reader (view posts/subscribe to this list): Column Two – James Robertson in Australia, who is also behind the Intranet Innovation... More
Why design? By Nic Price on 7 December 2007 — 1 min read Philippe Starck does his turn at TED. Don’t look up, it’s a trap. [Via Richard Sambrook] More
N95 – two things I can never remember how to do By Nic Price on 22 November 2007 — 1 min read I’ve had my Nokia N95 phone since June. I’m pretty pleased with it. It’s good for looking at websites, the camera is great despite the shutter lag, video quality good. It’s ok for having phone calls on. Battery life’s ok. I haven’t got the patience with the GPS, and sometimes I do wonder if it’s... More
Intranet personalisation: good or bad? By Nic Price on 2 October 2007 — 1 min read If you have web apps like travel booking systems or services like discussion forums running on your intranet you already have personalisation. Whether it’s any good is down to how well it’s designed and presented and how it feels to use. For company intranet homepages I don’t think there’s any question that personalisation will become... More
Automatic accents By Nic Price on 24 September 2007 — 1 min read Do you have a lift at work? Does it have a male or female voice? Who decided that? Does a lift in Belfast have a different accent to a lift in Manchester, Falmouth or Glasgow? Should the automated announcements on trains change accent depending on which part of the country you’re in? More
IT Conversations By Nic Price on 16 July 2007 — 1 min read Don’t be put off by the name! If you’re interested in anything vaguely related to technology there’s something to listen to here. I finally started catching up with some of my blog, news and podcast subscriptions recently and that coincided well with the arrival of my Nokia N95. Some podcast stuff I’ve been listening to... More
Intranet vibes By Nic Price on 20 April 2007 — 1 min read I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… Netvibes is quite simply everything an intranet (homepage) needs to be. As well as being a great way of managing all my stuff on the internet of course. More
Grand Designs comes to East Dulwich By Nic Price on 19 April 2007 — 1 min read There’s talk over in the East Dulwich Forum that Channel Four’s Grand Designs has been filming in Landells Road in East Dulwich. The episode is scheduled to go out on Wednesday 16th May. And last night saw Kevin McCloud revisiting Peckham. More