When I test software I love to test for the quirky details stuff. I know, why bother, but I guess I’m just one of those people for whom the devil is in the detail. And one of my favorite tests for multi-lingual applications is to test for consistency […]

I’m kind of opinionated when it comes to User Experience and the way users are directed to use certain functionality. Maybe it is because as a Business Consultant I’m usually the one talking most to users about their frustrations with software. Or maybe because I really believe that […]

I spent a good hour yesterday in the User Experience lab. Talking to UX specialists about Social Software and how I think it could improve. Now why is that important? Well it’s not and it is… My opinion on it’s own isn’t important at all but by being […]

I just created a new tab on my Lotus Notes Workspace. ‘Workspace?‘ you ask. Yes, workspace. Ok, I know, it has been more or less buried by Lotus since Lotus Notes V5 came out. But every time I install the Lotus Notes Client the first thing I do […]

Sometimes images just speak for themselves…… If your site shows input examples to show users what is expected of them, than make sure your example entries match the fields validation rules! Putting in an example with an underscore (“j_smith”) while an underscore is not allowed is really stupid […]

Ok after yesterdays Google ‘Feedback’ button I had another great chuckle today. Tried clicking the ‘Help’ button in the Quickr Migrator tool for DDM and got the following memorable response… 🙂

With Google heading in a new and possible exiting direction with its Google+ project and their new Me on the Web tool I was checking out some of the new features and stumbled upon the Google Profile. Not something I had ever seen before (even though it supposedly […]

Love this! Something goes wrong while writing a DM on twitter and in stead of deflecting blame (“Something went wrong”) or assigning blame (“Oops, it seems you did something wrong”) it simply takes full blame for the problem. Wish more sites / software would be so insightful! So […]

Was entering IBM Partnerworld today when I noticed the link to the Business Partner Locator. As I had heard someone complain about the fact that finding BP’s through the IBM site was rather laborious and outdated and that they couldn’t even find all BP’s in there, I decided […]

Did you now what a Captcha was? I didn’t until I started writing this blog. Searched for it and found out it’s actually a term, not a product or company. Oh well.  This wasn’t my reason for writing this blog, I just found the below Captcha quite funny. […]