Time to read: < 1 minute It’s been a short while that I discovered that two of my WordPress installs had gone, shall we say, tits up. You could visit the site, you could log into them using the WordPress app, but the damn thing refused to let you log into the dashboard. Something about update.php not existing? Very strange behaviour […] continue reading »
Time to read: 3 minutes My friend Peter Warwick-Mahoney, web developer extraordinaire (and a fairly awesome human, too) just tweeted about how a lot of his work starts on the back of an envelope, challenging the twittersphere to reply “how do _you_ work?”. I love learning about how people get things done, and quite fancied writing a reply longer than […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute If I were to sum up sketch, it would be “a constant surprise”. Between the “marelle” drawn on the floor at the entrance, the fairy forest bar, the delicious cocktails, the nearly alice-in-wonderland main dining room and the borderline clockwork-orange-lookalike egg-shaped toilets… well… sketch simply does not stop surprising you. All I had was a […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute Most of you will not know the amazing PDF Toolkit (pdftk) It is a command prompt tool that allows you to manipulate PDF documents. rotate them, join two together, extract some pages, delete pages, etc… So, what could be better than PDFtk? PDFtk4all: A context menu for windows (windows shell extension, if you want to […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutes Twitter is a news-snippet drip-feed So it can be the BBC telling you about the UN vote on Palestine happening live, or your cousin posting a photo about a skirt she’s trying on, asking you what you think. Twitter is a place where everyone -and i mean everyone- can broadcast a short snippet of something […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutes So I’m doing a presentation. And of course, as part of the process, I am going to stand up in front of my audience and say the formulaic “Hello, my name is Sophie and I’m a…” User Experience Architect. You’re disappointed, I know. This is a two-fold post. Firstly, I would like to confess that […] continue reading »
Time to read: 3 minutes So I’ve decided to finally write about where to I find good coffee in London. My first ever caffeine-inspired post is about the top three (four since 2012) coffee chains. I used to hate coffee, down to the smell of it, due to parental associations with cigarettes, wasted time, late nights, and general bad health. […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutes One of the strongest features of powerpoint is also one of its weaknesses. Slide masters. The ability to set up a consistent layout and format goes to pot when that format cannot be edited from its context of use. Ever tried fixing alignment on a slide when you can’t see the content? Then you haven’t […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute This isn’t a rant… It’s a design observation. The BBC news site has a lovely section with “future” posts. I clicked on the heading to read one of them, because it was interesting… Only to be told that it wasn’t accessible from the country I was in – the UK… Given that cookies are used […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute I’m sure you’ve heard of Prezi. If you hadn’t until this week, then perhaps this lovely one about the US elections will have caught your eye. Election Results Prezi on Prezi What makes prezi cool Nice flow to items shown, making it incredibly refreshing compared to slide decks, a legacy of the sixties Easy to […] continue reading »
