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 [...]
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 [...]
NRKbeta: at a glance
NRKbeta’s facebook group has just passed the 1000 fans landmark, so I decided to take a look. What is it? What do they do? What do they write about? I was faced by the following screens, HP above the fold, and HP after first page-down. At a glance? Disturbing….
Of course, I must mention a couple [...]
Where’s the content? A crude real estate allocation comparison of six leading norwegian news sites
I have done a crude comparison of the same six leading news sites HPs as in the previous post, to show visually how much real estate is allocated to news content on each of them. This is shown by dimming out everything that is not news content, and so advertising, headers, logos, menus etc.: Take [...]
Finn.no bits: dine funn
Today I want to quickly comment on the “dine funn” (your stored items) function on finn.no. Firstly, I must say it has improved substantially with this new UI and, especially, with some new interaction. In particular, the interaction for deleting and for commenting, which is now Ajax-based, avoids lengthy page reloads, and works much better. [...]
A good pizza experience
A friend of mine gave me and my wife an interesting present some time ago:
And this pizza wheel cutter proved to be an excellent pizza tool. Even more interesting though, I tried it with other types of food, and in particular with beef. It worked even better than on pizza, as the force applied to [...]