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Archive for May, 2007

Web 2.0 Usability

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Earlier this week, Jakob Nielsen claimed that “Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design“.

Guess the nice looking web 2.0 logos (joke, yes), fancy icons and shiny colors weren’t enough? Shooot!

Other interesting reads:

Un-usability 101

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

The lack of self-awareness and usable solutions, even for large companies or public sectors / -providers, is sometimes astonishing.

We just recently bought our first car. Since it’s quite common that you have to pay toll when driving on Norwegian high (and low) ways, we signed up for a service called AutoPass. Being an AutoPass subscriber, you can pass through all of Norway’s AutoPass toll posts without having to stop (you also get a discount). The alternative is to pay by coins — perhaps multiple times a day.

Signing up on-line wasn’t very easy, though. (more…)