Monthly Archives: October 2006

By “Unlimited” we, er, mean, limited. Very limited.

I’m surprised to see the way ISPs and telcos still describe their products so misleadingly, even after the trouble that Talk-talk got into with the ASA about offering free broadband “Forever”. Orange are currently running a campaign that uses the … Continue reading

Interfaces for Power Users

In Productivity and Screen Size,  Jacob Nielson trashes a recent Apple survey on how fabulous large monitors are for productivity. (He doesn’t actually say he disagree’s with Apple’s results, just that their methodology was suspect). I’m not quite sure whether … Continue reading

Spaces are not allowed

I just tried to fill in an online form and I typed in my details (actually I pressed a little button on the Google toolbar that filled most of it in for me. Marvellous…) then submit. The form popped up … Continue reading

Rather Nice Critique of thetrainline.com

Andy Budd (the other slightly better known AndyB – he scolded me once on a mailing list for signing myself AndyB. Cheek!) demolishes thetrainline.com rather nicely. I wonder if companies get to read this kind of stuff and whether they … Continue reading

Froogle: what’s in a name?

As web savvy, technology oriented people we often forget what it’s like to be normal. This is probably why Google have an elementary usability mistake slap-bang in the middle of their home page. The mistake I’m referring to? The tab … Continue reading