May 26, 2006
Cavan County Council, www.cavancoco.ie have taken the first step towards a huge improvement in their online presence. The first stage was a redesign of their look and feel.
May 26, 2006
In early March of this year, Colm and I spent some time in Google’s London offices being trained up for the Google Enterprise Professional programme as part of iQ Content’s partnership with Google. We had four days of nerdy fun installing and configuring the Google Search Appliance (GSA). I also learned something about Google’s attitude to user experience design, which seems as big a part of their success as any secret sauce their search engine runs on.
May 25, 2006
OneNote is a great program. It really changes, for the better, the way you can work and think. But it also has a interesting design flaw — you can’t save.
May 19, 2006
Jared Spool, usability expert, asked me what my concerns with AJAX were on his blog. I’ll discuss some of them briefly.
May 17, 2006
Yahoo have redesigned their homepage (not the entire site) – see it at yahoo.com/preview. Jared Spool mentions it over on Brain Sparks but doesn’t draw any conclusions apart from saying the new “home page uses a lot of AJAX and fancy display techniques”. Here’s what I think…
May 13, 2006
About two weeks ago, I went into town to buy The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki (a really good read by the way).
I went into Hodges Figgis on Dawson Street in Dublin and looked at the store directory. I presumed the book was in the Business section, so made my way up to the first floor. After five minutes of fruitless searching, I decided to try elsewhere. I’d read excerpts of the book online which discussed Google, so I thought the adjacent Computer Science section was a good bet. Yet, after a further five minutes, no joy.
Continue readingMay 10, 2006
The Gardai have been having a rough go of it lately, as they often seem to do in the press. This post has nothing to do with recent problems, it has to do with an old problem. By the look of it, a very old problem.
Have a quick gander at the Garda website.
It’s so bad that I almost feel sorry for it. Pointing out the faults in this site is like kicking a drunken old man who’s collapsed on the side of the road.