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Archive for the 'errors' Category

I’m starting a series of posts to catalogue random pieces of design which cause problems in usability.  Things that are more complicated than they need to be, and which make you go ‘uh… what should I press here?’ or simply ‘what is that meant to mean?’.
First to be called out: Aberystwyth Student Union online shop.
As […]

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Crunch

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Some quick answers:

This was me, in see-through mode, on Saturday 4 April.
I fell off my unicycle.
It didn’t hurt any more than normally falling off unicycle does.
It was my fancy, new KH Schlumpf 36″, but that wasn’t the cause (wasn’t going any faster than I would have done otherwise, around 30kph on the flat).
I met the […]

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Levers and pulleys

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

I’ve been tinkering a little bit, and I don’t know what happened.
There was a frayed end of a rope sticking out of part of the internet machinery, and a buzzing noise. Somewhere down the line my previous blog template fell off the line.
This one you’re seeing now is the default Wordpress again, which I […]

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Walking down the aisle errors?

Monday, October 20th, 2008

This is a request for comments.
What would be the most amusingly inappropriate song to be played as the happy couple walks down the aisle out of their wedding?
My starter suggestion would be The Beatles - Yesterday (…all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as if they’re here to stay…). This was […]

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I feel such a valued customer

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Unless there is something I don’t know about, I am not called Mr Jones, and nor do I live in Anytown.
This was included in an envelope which also had my account statement in, so that showed the correct name and address through the envelope window.
Thanks for the reminder, Nationwide - I do mean to put […]

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Pedal Error - how not to ride a unicycle

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

For those not familiar with bike-geek stuff, this is not how a pedal is meant to look.The spiky bit on the top is meant to be bolted to the sole of your shoe. Then you can twist your shoe and it becomes unclipped from the pedal.
But when one of the bolts fails then it […]

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