The word of the week is skeuomorph. A skeuomorph is an item that retains old design features even though the reason for them has long since passed. The e-mail icon on your PC may well be an envelope, but the days of licking and sticking are gone. When my iPhone rings it sounds like a […]
Archives for August 2013
The Beauty of Low Tech
This is a guest post I had my eyes tested at Specsavers a couple of weeks ago: First I tried their website, it told me that if I wanted an appointment in the next 48 hours I would need to contact the store. Then I rang the store and they told me that they didn’t […]
The Shocking Truth About Your Improvement Project
Yesterday I read that only 5% of the changes we make at work are changes for the better. Only 1 in 20 improvements actually improve things. Allegedly everything else we do is ineffective or, worse still, counter-productive. Ungrounded statistics I thought that sounded horribly harsh. Only 1 in 20 improvements are really improvements? It sounded more […]
The Problem with NPS (Or do I Look Fat in This?)
I am 45. They say that when middle-age is upon us our broad minds and narrow waists swap sizes. It is happening to me, (certainly around my waist, and as I no longer enjoy finding strangers in my kitchen first thing in the morning, probably my mind as well). I need to lose some weight […]