Looking for the bus timetable on friday evening brought me to the Bus Éireann website. First thing that struck was some kind of a redesign to the homepage.
Bus Eireann webpage takes a step back to 1999
November 13, 2006
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When poor usability can be actually dangerous
November 7, 2006
World Usability Day happens
on 14th November, and while we have our own plans to mark the occasion (watch this space), the most excellent folks at Flow Interactive have set up the website, Making Life Easy, to showcase examples of good and bad usability from around the world.
I made a guest appearance in “A dim view of the driving experience”, looking at an important usability issue in the Toyota Corolla
Word of mouth marketing and Ireland’s biggest property website
October 30, 2006
Two things that I took from Daft’s Eamonn Fallon’s talk at last week’s iQ guru session at our bootcamp were the importance of word of mouth marketing and innovation.
Eamonn Fallon, managing director of Daft.ie gave an open and honest talk on the Daft.ie story. Incidentally, Eamonn is speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference on Wednesday 29th November. Definitely worth a visit.
Daft.ie vs. MyHome.ie: the user experience
October 3, 2006
At the start of this month, Daft.ie announced a new property mapping feature now available on their site. They’ve combined the functionality of Google Maps with their own database of houses for sale. In other words, it’s a mashup.
The result? It’s fantastic.
Battle of the RSS readers: Bloglines versus Google Reader
October 2, 2006
Both Google Reader and Bloglines have recently made changes in attempt to win back users. As a daily user of Bloglines and someone who had previously given up on Google Reader, I decided to put them through their paces, comparing them on a number of features and awarding a point for a win or draw for each.
The results?
While Google Reader has a superior user interface, it is let down by not picking up new feeds consistently and not recognising the addition of some URLS.
Google Calendar adds Irish mobile operators to notifications
September 22, 2006
Google Calendar has added Meteor, O2 and Vodafone to their notification options. Previously, if using Google Calendar in an Irish context, you could only get reminders sent to your email address. Now, they also arrive on your mobile via a text message. Nice
You know your IA isn’t working when…
September 10, 2006
Getting the information architecture working well for a site is a difficult thing to do. There’s no doubt about it. But when your site is only 30 or 40 pages, you’d think the IA wouldn’t be too tough. Take a look at the home page of Farmleigh House, and you can see that even very small sites struggle with the basics.
