August 31, 2008
Have you seen the new Dublin Bus “street furniture”? Did the differences catch your attention?
Walking up Parnell Square last week, not only did the new signs grab my eye, but I stopped to read this surprising notice: Continue reading
August 26, 2008
The key to designing a good user experience is empathy. Without empathy, design becomes an exercise in interpreting abstract requirements. This problem is particularly prevalent in web accessibility projects, where many members of the team have never seen assistive technologies in use. I want to go some way towards rectifying this situation in this post by discussing what it is like to use a screen reader and three key strategies screen reader users employ when on the web.
August 22, 2008
I used to be a rail commuter in Dublin.
Each morning I would scramble aboard a train at Sutton and travel from there to Pearse Station.
As one of the city’s most central stops, the crowds at Pearse were legion. During rush hour, thousands of people would regularly pile out of the trains eager to get to work.
And physically leaving the station was something of a thrill.
August 20, 2008
It’s almost time to dust off the dinner jacket, relearn how to tie the infernal dicky-bow, book the limo and get ready for all the glitz and glamour that goes along with the Irish web award season Continue reading
August 18, 2008
…would make us IQers pretty dull boys and girls. Fortunately, at least one of our analysts – Ruairi Galavan – has interests away from usability, design, etc. In his case he is bass guitarist with ‘The Prairie Dawgs‘, a Dublin … Continue reading
August 15, 2008
First off, for those of you who don’t know what jacks are, it’s a colloquial term for the toilet (or if you’re very posh, the lavatory).
Many projects these days talk about usability and even user experience. You may also hear or read talk of “outside-in” rather than “inside-out”. All essential, obviously. Continue reading
August 1, 2008
An internal business blogging 101 for iQubers. Continue reading
