Archive | September, 2007

UK iPhone carrier O2, doesn’t support Safari

by Paul on 19. Sep, 2007 in technology

I’ve never met anybody who sings the praises of O2, the phone network Apple have disappointingly chosen to exclusively offer the iPhone in the UK. Once upon a time I was an O2 customer, but the experience was so bad that not even the iPhone will tempt me back. I was an ‘online’ customer, which [...]

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Finding Steve Fossett: When UI design can be the difference between life and death

by Paul on 16. Sep, 2007 in web design

This year’s dConstruct User Experience Design conference is mere days behind us. Having been inspired to create websites which are easier to use, I am horrified by the lack of thought behind the design of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Amazon’s phenomenal success as a book store has never been attributed to its frankly poor visual design. [...]

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Rock On – An Event Apart, Chicago

by Paul on 02. Sep, 2007 in web conferences

Last week I knocked up a quick’n’dirty animation from Jeremy’s An Event Apart photoset, just to include in his Flickr comments. Little did I realise how popular it’d become!
Links from the likes of Jeffery Zeldman and Eric Meyer have prompted me to give it its own blog entry. After all, if it weren’t for [...]

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