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• Come on Vodafone…

  
  julian101.com — Authority: 108
  Isn’t it frustrating when you need customer support from Vodafone and click the ‘Contact Form’ link only to find the popup support form window doesn’t have scrollbars enabled – so the SUBMIT button is inaccessible! Yes, I know I can click the arrow keys or tab to get to the button, but most users wouldn’t ...
  1 day ago

• UPS what were you thinking?

  
  Terry White's Tech Blog — Authority: 578
  Nope, this is not iPhone App of the Week day! This is one of those rare moments that something about a product bugs me so much that it cant wait. I just downloaded the FREE UPS iPhone App. Overall I think the App is great and UPS got a lot of things right such as [...]
  2 days ago

• Web Pages That Suck — Hayden Wedding Video

  
  Web Designer Pinoy — Authority: 148
  They’ve fixed the site, but here’s what it looked like when visitors to WPTS named it the worst site of 2005.
  3 days ago

• More Bad Web Design from Web Pages That Suck

  
  Web Designer Pinoy — Authority: 148
  This German site used Mystery Meat Navigation to confuse its visitors. They’ve redesigned this site, but the new design still sucks.
  3 days ago

• More silliness at Newark

  
  Commonsense Design — Authority: 110
  We saw how the electronic boards at Newark Liberty airport made the ridiculous omission of adjusting for the Daylight Savings move. Evidently this is not an exception: something is very wrong with that airport’s electronic signage. These guys have an “Airtrain”, an internal elevated light rail system for ...
  4 days ago

• Drugstore Fun

  
  i could cry but i don't have time — Authority: 127
  I have proven that I can have fun just about anywhere. Today it was in the drug store while shopping for a get well gift. Joyce, my sometimes MFTA by proxy was delighted to partake in the shoot. I am always amazed at the terrible packaging in the section with the braces and bandages. This item struck me immediately. ...
  4 days ago

• Reasons to wear a helmet

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 734
  The worlds worst bike lanes according to readers of the Guardian . The Flickr group where readers submitted their candidates.
  6 days ago

• George Hutchins for Congress ‘10: A campaign that knows design

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 580
  From North Cackalackly to Congress. Any man from North Carolina who can use the Impact font with this much, uh, IMPACT, deserves to be in Congress. We hope he gets elected. Then we hope he ends up taking shots in a Capital Hill bar with Alan Grayson. Then, we expect him to redesign our site. We’ll be ready for ...
  1 week ago

• 2010 Honda Insight EX: A Wagon by Any Other Name

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 503
  I continue to bemoan the fact station wagons got a bad rap. They clearly represent the most flexible and useful configuration you can get in a sedan-sized footprint, and so Im sorry automakers have to disguise their designs to deliver that utility without calling their cars wagons. Consider the Honda Insight. ...
  1 week ago

• 2010 Honda Insight EX: A Wagon by Any Other Name

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 503
  I continue to bemoan the fact station wagons got a bad rap. They clearly represent the most flexible and useful configuration you can get in a sedan-sized footprint, and so Im sorry automakers have to disguise their designs to deliver that utility without calling their cars wagons. Consider the Honda Insight. ...
  1 week ago

• A time lapse at Newark

  
  Commonsense Design — Authority: 110
  Had to take a flight out of Newark airport on the morning after the move from daylight saving to winter time. The preceding evening I took good care to set my alarm clock and wristwatch back the required hour, and took off to the airport in the morning. And when I got there, I was amused to see the many and wonderful ...
  1 week ago

• Really Bad Album Covers

  
  TutzTutz.com — Authority: 121
  [IMG: http://www.oliverbenjamin.net/images/funny%20pics/pic30191.jpg][IMG: http://www.oliverbenjamin.net/images/funny%20pics/pic27753.jpg][IMG: http://www.oliverbenjamin.net/images/funny%20pics/pic18007.jpg][IMG: http://www.oliverbenjamin.net/images/funny%20pics/pic15457.jpg][IMG: ...
  1 week ago

• Bad Church Web Design Hurts My Eyes

  
  ChurchCrunch — Authority: 523
  It probably hurts other people’s eyes too. And that’s not even the biggest issue though because if bad design didn’t impact effectiveness of message then who would really care? But it does. Bad design produces bad results in the online space. This is so obvious that it’s painful (pun intended…?). Be ...
  1 week ago

• Mastery=unconscious (contd.)

  
  Punya Mishra's Web — Authority: 418
  Robin Revette Fowler sent me a message on Facebook regarding my recent posting(s) about moving from incompetence to mastery (see the two previous posts here and here). She took issue with my idea that mastery requires some kind of meta-level, self-awareness. She said It seems like the issue is with either the meaning ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Invest In Good Design?

  
  Brightspark — Authority: 414
  Only to have some cheap resource break it? This is what has happened with The Rose Project – a Brightspark website that won an award at the Irish Web Awards only 3 weeks ago. They have employed someone to update the site and that someone hasn’t a clue. Exhibit A: Home page banner featuring white around ...
  2 weeks ago

• Windows 7 Annoyances (Grasshopper, You Have Much to Learn)

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 573
  After a two hour session in front of the Windows 7 computer, I was just about at my wit’s end. I’m finding many things to like about Windows 7, but an equal number of things to hate. The things to like are the improved Aero look and feel (better and cleaner than Vista), the feel of it being snappier (and, though ...
  3 weeks ago

• Designing for anticipation, Teaching for anticipation

  
  Punya Mishra's Web — Authority: 418
  In a couple of previous posts I had talked about the idea of postdiction (see the posts here and here). The argument being that good teaching (among a long list of other good things) is postdictable, i.e. it walks the line between predictability and chaos, and most importantly makes sense post hoc. To make my [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Postdictable, the commercials

  
  Punya Mishra's Web — Authority: 418
  I had written earlier about the idea of “postdictable” which was defined as something that is “surprising initially, but then understandable with a bit of thought.” It lies at the spot between predictability and total chaos. The movie Sixth Sense is postdictable in the best sense of the world. Good teaching I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Regretsy: The Worst Of Etsy or When Crafts Are Crap

  
  If It's Hip, It's Here — Authority: 619
  Ive always had an aversion to the word crafts. It makes me think of those heinous crocheted toilet paper roll covers or wooden Geese families for the front yard. And although I respect anyone who labors at creating a personal expression, it is true that some results are only good for a giggle. Which leads me to ...
  4 weeks ago

• We aren’t all noobs!

  
  Commonsense Design — Authority: 110
  One gripe I have with the help systems in many consumer software applications: they’re written with the assumption that we users are all clueless newbies. Take the Microsoft Office tools: they have many advanced and powerful capabilities; it is both interesting and useful to know what exactly they do. But the Help ...
  4 weeks ago

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