by Jonathan Baker-Bates on February 24, 2022
I noticed today (well, last week – it’s taken me this long to write it) that my Chrome browser had been updated with a new feature that puts the ability to share in the address bar. I want to pause to record this particular development, because I think it’s unusually significant and – in a […]
by Jonathan Baker-Bates on July 15, 2019
I see that Matt Edgar, Head of Design at the NHS, has announced the withdrawal of the NHS Common User Interface (CUI). The reason given is that the CUI had not “changed with the times” following the closure of NHS Connecting for Health in 2013. I think this is a pretty interesting episode in the […]
by Jonathan Baker-Bates on July 22, 2017
The reasons why confirmation dialogues are inferior to “undo” (perhaps better termed “delayed triggering”) are pretty clear, well understood, and accepted by anyone who has taken the time to read something about HCI. Undo has also featured in usability heuristics since time immemorial. No serious designer should therefore be specifying confirmation dialogues for significant CrUD […]
by Jonathan Baker-Bates on October 25, 2015
This is a post about decentralised systems. Bear with me. I was reading this about an Internet primer in FHM magazine in 1995. The writer is about the same age as I was when the article was published. The tone of the piece is familiar. Back then, the Internet was seen as a minority interest, like drag racing […]
by Jonathan Baker-Bates on June 8, 2014
This is a condensed version of my talk for the Bulgaria Web Summit, 31st May 2014. I spoke without real notes so the following is simply the main points. Introduction How should a UX team respond to the results of randomised control trials of their designs? Such “A/B” and “multivariate” tests hold out the possibility of […]
by Jonathan Baker-Bates on September 25, 2010
Last year, our fearless team of interaction designers, creative designers and interface engineers (about 20 of us at the time) took the decision to embrace Scrum, the “agile” methodology for project management. We were all given training courses to attend, and I myself volunteered (along with several others) to become a certified Scrum Master. As […]
by Jonathan Baker-Bates on September 2, 2008
by Jonathan Baker-Bates on August 7, 2008
I’ve just been watching this video from Adaptive Path in response to Mozilla Lab’s call for participation. The video seems to be more of a PR play for Adaptive Path though, and not a serious attempt at design direction – which is a bit disappointing, but no matter. There are a number of things that […]