I love reading magazines, I was subscribed to Fast Company and Wired for several years before coming to NZ. Now, I still receive my UPA (Usability Professional Association) magazine here in NZ. As far as I remember, the UPA magazine has always been wrapped in a sealed plastic bag, which could be frustrating to open. (a [...]
I love seeing an application that caters for two personas like the xe.com iPhone app. Ted The Tourist lives in New Zealand but he is planning a trip to Australia, so he checks the currencies once a week until he buys Australian dollars before leaving. What he needs to know is the value with a [...]
Have you ever bought a good bottle of wine and wanted to keep the name to buy that one again in the future? You can write the name down, add a note to your iPhone or BlackBerry or, like my parents were doing several years ago, immerse the bottle for a while and then take [...]
In a previous post (AA form – three entry fields and one error!), I wrote about how a simple form on the New Zealand Automobile Association (AA) website was finally not as easy as it should have been. I’m quite happy to tell you that AA is doing a new contest and they improved their [...]
