Only 6 days ago I complained about how poorly ATMs are designed (or more specifically the UI). Actually I’ve been complaining about it for years, but only blogged about it 6 days ago.
Well I’ve changed banks recently (not because of the ATMs…) and I got a wonderful surprise this morning when I went to [...]

People talk about sea levels rising and what effect they’ll have, but it’s hard to really imagine how much would go under water. Well here’s a visualisation project that projects the watermark on a couple of areas in Bristol, UK.
I think this is a good way to drive home the topic. [...]

I’m not really sure how useful it is, but it certainly is interesting to see 11,000 tweets plotted over 24 hours – all relating to a “good morning” tweet. The colour coding shows what the time the tweet was sent (green is “early” while red is “late”).
This data visualisation reinforces the preconceptions of have [...]

I don’t understand why ATMs are so poorly designed. These are customer facing devices and represent an extension of the company/brand. It’s like having a slow, rude and dumb person at the counter (some people might argue that you do find this, but usually the bank tries hard to have smiley customer service [...]

Here’s some friday funny for you (yes I know it’s only thursday but I have friday off, so it’s friday for me).
A slightly tenuous link to UX, but here’s a flowchart that shows the structure of the chorus to Total Eclipse of the Heart. I just thought it was an interesting way to represent [...]

Most UX people can’t stand CAPTCHAs (I could probably say ‘all’, but there is most likely one out there that would make me a liar).  For me at least a CAPTCHA says, “I can’t be bothered to try and work out who’s a spammer, so I’ll just assume all my users are spammers and make [...]

Holograms are certainly taking their time becoming useful. I remember seeing them as a kid (at least 20 years ago) in a video game arcade. Holograms in every day use were just around the corner…
Now some researches from Shinado Lab (at the University of Tokyo) have taken it a step further by allowing [...]

Have you always suspected that the media over reported on swine flu? Yeah me too. Sure, it’s a serious topic that needed some coverage, but they kind of got carried away. The Information is Beautiful site gives us our evidence – a news timeline showing the number of news stories for a variety [...]

Masking your password in the UI seems to be of little value anyway, but most applications seem to do it this way, and I’m sure users expect it (probably out of habit more than logic). So if you still want, or need to, have password masking, here’s a nice little visualisation of the password.
The [...]

I’m not entirely sure why power plugs are design as they are, but it certainly doesn’t seem optimal. You need a rather large power board to fit 3 or 4 of them together. Here’s a great design that has a simple change and saves a huge amount of space as well as still [...]