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
Work-life blur By Nic Price on 4 July 2005 — 1 min read 3 things that cross over between my work and my life: A desire to understand how things work. (What goes on under the bonnet? What do they feel like to use? What’s the story behind the design?) Using technology to help connect people with each other and with information My love of language(s) Not to... More
What next? Missing a trick with online transactions By Nic Price on 22 June 2005 — 1 min read After completing online transactions I often find myself in a cul-de-sac. There are some notable exceptions, but most sites I’ve used are missing a trick. Often the only options are to return to a previous page or close the window housing the application. This has always struck me as an ideal moment to let me... More
You are here By Nic Price on 11 May 2005 — 1 min read Yes, but how did I get here? Yesterday I went to the Design Museum in London with some friends from work to see the design of information exhibition “YOU ARE HERE” (now in its last week). It was full of amazing examples of how we convey complex information through models, signs and symbols, including navigation... More
Good to pub By Nic Price on 16 April 2005 — 1 min read Adaptonyms (also known as textonyms and cellodromes) are words that can be typed with the same sequence of keys on a cell phone using predictive text. For example the sequence “2-3-3” can produce “bed”, “add”, or “bee”. Source: Wikipedia Yesterday I texted a friend to let him know we’d “good to pub”. What I meant... More
Change the world for a fiver By Nic Price on 2 April 2005 — 2 mins read This week a hugely important UN-backed report, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was published about how rapidly we’re destroying our planet. It’s four main findings are: Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively in the last 50 years than in any other period. This was done largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh... More
Design is no accident By Nic Price on 23 March 2005 — 1 min read To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident. Emil Ruder Typography See entry about Emil Ruder in German Wikipedia More
Where to put stuff By Nic Price on 9 March 2005 — 1 min read Chatting to my friend Claire earlier about having cleared my inbox thanks to Mark Hurst’s very handy guide to Managing incoming email. We talked about how, because of the tools we’ve been given to deal with our information, we’ve been encouraged to organise our information in hierarchical structures. A few years ago I built a... More
Broken By Nic Price on 4 March 2005 — 1 min read Great idea: This is broken “A project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it.” Amongst the hundreds of posts is a picture of a “Restroom” sign in Seattle with an arrow pointing to the sky Courtesy of Mark Hurst in New York who’s behind goodexperience.com More
A designated quiet area By Nic Price on 2 March 2005 — 1 min read Sign on train today… Just wondering… what constitutes using a mobile phone these days? I read the news on mine today quite happily (and quietly). If I’d read it to someone else would I have been arrested? More