Tag/category: Technology
Why isn’t online banking better?
No this isn’t a rant about the bad usability and user experience of online banking. Or the generally poor design. Or even the stagnating development cycles, the 1999 interfaces, the lack of accessibility or the flagrant disregard for standard-based, best-practice coding. No, I’m wondering why, in 2010, none of the following features are available on my online banking service: Drill …
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Educational experiment
With a heavy sigh of relief, I’m pleased to declare that my experiment paid off. I spent every Wednesday of the last academic year attending a fast track English A level course. Why? Well… to see what later-life learning is like, spy on the state of 6th form colleges in 2008, expand my mind… and — I confess — to …
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Technology — just a name for something that doesn't work yet
A few evenings ago in the Highbury, Chris shared with me a Douglas Adams quote (it actually turns out to be Adams quoting Bran Ferren): “technology is the name we have for stuff that doesn’t quite work yet”. A chair for example. We no longer need to think if a chair will work, or crash on us, we just use it.
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