Parking meters are typically irksome to use in whatever guise they take. This, one of the latest generation of Sydney parking meters, I find particularly annoying. There are two ways to pay. One is with coins, the other with a credit or pre-pay card. Arranged around the liquid crystal display (which is completely illegible at [...]
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Little UX gems and annoyances, #2
Monday, October 12th, 2009Little UX gems and annoyances, #1
Monday, September 28th, 2009You know when you stumble upon a tiny aspect of an experience with a product or service that is so delightful or so annoying that you instantly turn around to point it out to the person next to you? This (hopefully) series will highlight some of them and thus give a little shout out to [...]
Joys and Frustrations of a New Mac User
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009In November last year I bought a MacBook Pro. After a dozen years as a Windows user (and fifteen more on Amigas, various flavours of Unix, IBM Mainframes, OS/2, AS/400, C64 and VIC-20) I decide to replace my aging Dell laptop. What pulled me in to the Apple offering was the sheer quality of the [...]