POS and smart cards: new usability headaches
A new dimension is opening up in the POS usability world: the new “smart card readers” are spreading, so that now the most recent POS machines both allow to swipe (to read the magnetic strip) and to insert (to read the smart chip). As predictable, no consistency: you can insert at the bottom fo the [...]
Correct markup code do matter
A while back ago I worked in a company that had IP-phones. Didn’t use it much since we had cellphones, but it had easy access to the weather forcast for all our main offices. Every now and then I would check the office in Brasil, daydreaming, since our office was in Oslo, Norway. And every [...]
POS Payment terminals: a visual review
As promised in a previous post (Bad experience with POS payment terminals), and after the vacation break, I am uploading a visual review of (some) POS payment terminals. The document is not menat to be comprehensive, but rather illustrative and - more importantly - “open”. By open I mean that I will update it [...]
GPS: Labeling and doing two things at the same time
GPS navigation for cars still have a way to go before perfect. A while ago, as a passenger from Oslo to Lista in Norway, I got to examine a TomTom GPS screen real estate a bit more thorough, and found an odd detail. Whenever driving South-West, the arrow in the lower left corner of the [...]
Bad experience with POS payment terminals
I am inaugurating vdl Labs with a post on POS payment terminals. They have been bugging me ever since I moved to Norway (now over 8 years ago). The reason is not so much linked to anyone terminal, even though some of those are badly designed. The real bad thing about them is that there [...]