Archives for September, 2008

Poor form Zappos!Posted on September 15, 2008

Scott is heading off to Canada for a few weeks and I thought I’d stock up on all my online shopping that is too expensive to ship to Australia. (As an aside, places like Amazon charge just as much to ship to Canada as they do to Australia - they just tried to charge me [...]

Tags: customer experience

The t-shirts have arrived!Posted on

We are very excited to say that the t-shirts have arrived and look AWESOME.
To reiterate, we are giving away these t-shirts for Web Directions South 08. We have 3 designs to choose from, I like code, I like words or I like design. All you need to do is blog (or flickr) about Web [...]

Tags: Conferences, Molt:n Digital, wds08

Take that DovePosted on September 10, 2008

This video of a Photoshop genius making a fat (err… Rubenesque) girl thin is a really cool example of the capabilities of Photoshop.

I would have liked to have seen it in reverse, so taking a thin model and making her look naturally fat, but it’s another great reminder of why I don’t buy magazines. [...]

Tags: random thoughts

And to think I called bank advertising clueless…Posted on September 9, 2008

The ad world is all agog today about a new ad from HSBC in the UK that involves bears, hippies, cops and what looks like an obscenely big budget. Most of the advertising blogs I read love the ad and say (I’m paraphrasing here) that it’s engaging, makes you think, brings a tear to your [...]

Tags: Marketing

The laziest form on the web?Posted on September 8, 2008

I’ve decided to go back to uni part time and so today went along to the UAC site to register myself and find out what to do next.
I thought I had seen the worst that web forms could give me in terms of bad usability, unclear error message and unintelligible flow but UAC really [...]

Tags: customer experience

Get off the slush pile (or rifle through it).Posted on September 2, 2008

Photo by Flickr user Makani5

For most of my life I have been obsessed with reading and writing - I was a nerdy bookworm when I was a kid, and grew into a nerdy bookworm as an adult. I’ve always been fascinated by the publishing process; from submitting a manuscript, getting on the slush pile, getting [...]

Tags: innovation

I wish Flickr or Facebook would add thisPosted on

The new version of Picasa (being released today) has an upgrade in facial recognition, meaning you won’t need to tag every photo.
Picasa’s facial recognition technology will ask you to identify people in your pictures that you haven’t tagged yet. Once you do and start uploading more pictures, Picasa starts suggesting tags for people based [...]

Tags: innovation