Archive for the ‘Real Life’ Category

 

Web Registration for Kids

February 9th, 2011

Just a quick post to link to an interesting article I read today on A List Apart (on my blogroll). It was a good reminder of the importance of identifying who your potential users types are going to be. And the differences in how they are going to approach the internet and your site. Children [...]

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Student Loans Company – Breadcrumbs

January 30th, 2011

So another thing that I noticed while getting lost on the SLC website, while trying to find information about repayments (see previous post), was that the breadcrumbs at the top of the page don’t make sense on the home page. As you can see in the above screenshot (click to see full size), the breadcrumbs [...]

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Student Loan Company – Repayment

January 23rd, 2011

So, although I get annual statements from the student loans company, I decided that I should checkout their online offering so I can check my remaining balance when I think of it, instead of when I’m at home and can access my paper statements. So off I went to Google (where else!?) and put in [...]

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Toilet Doors

December 5th, 2010

So the gym I go to (at 7am [not quite worked out how or why yet]) has the standard changing room row of toilet cubicles.  On the whole there’s nothing wrong with them.  They’re clean, always have toilet paper and flush correctly (I think you’ll agree that’s a minimum set of requirements). And so with [...]

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