March 30, 2007
Usually homepage splash screens are a usability no-no. (See my unforgiving rant about the Garda website for an example.) But this week I came across a happy exception.
I went to the FAI site to check the time for Wednesday’s match against Slovakia …
March 25, 2007
Share IT is essentially a free IT Training programme for small companies and individuals and is the brainchild of Damien Mulley (Ireland Offline chairman, Irish Blog Awards organiser and Sunday Tribune technology columnist – the guy is a machine) and the first session took place in Cork on Saturday.
I went down to give an hour long talk on writing for the web…
March 22, 2007
Back from a very enjoyable day at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham for Search Marketing World 2007.
March 16, 2007
One of the presentations at this year’s TED conference was from the Canadian crew at BumpTop. In video below, you can see a demo of their fancy-pants new desktop interface.
No question — it’s really cool. (And you gotta love the bling ring on the demo guy’s hand.)
But it leaves me wondering, have they come up with an amazing solution to a non-existent problem?
March 15, 2007
Google have been regularly tweaking the user interface of their online real estate. Today they made a small change to their Google Reader web application and I like it.
March 7, 2007
Following on from Bernie Goldbach’s, Damien Mulley’s and Eoin O’Dell’s lead, here’s the Trocaire ad that has been banned from the commercial Irish airwaves by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland.
March 6, 2007
Today, I read what I consider to be the funniest usability review ever written. Now, if you’ve spent much time at all with usability evaluation reports, the word “funny” is not one you’d readily associate with such texts. At iQ Content, we strive for “clarity” or “actionability” or some other laudable goal in writing these things, but experience has taught us that “funny” doesn’t go down well with clients.