Usability (8)
Good usability at Just-Eat.co.uk
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Wednesday, 05 January 2011 20:12 | 0 commentsJust-Eat is a company that offers an online menu and ordering system on behalf of takeaway or carryout restaurants. Dominos and Pizza Hut have been doing this for years at a franchise-wide level, but it's not always feasible for individual restaurants to do it themselves. As a business concept, I think it's a great idea -- they definitely seem to have found a niche to serve.
Generally, the website shows good usability. The webpages have a clean and appealing design, which provides all the information you need without getting too cluttered. However, one page I particularly want to focus on is perhaps the most important -- the credit/debit card entry page. The attached image shows the page as it appears for a Visa card.
Information finding on Oyyy.co.uk
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Saturday, 15 August 2009 11:03 | 2 commentsBefore I go into this, please don't read this as any kind of criticism of the Oyyy.co.uk shop or its staff. This is simply intended as an analysis of a usability problem. As an online shop, the site is better than many I have used, so this one issue is not a big deal at all.
As of a couple of days ago, I am the proud owner of a snazzy new BlackBerry Curve 8900, on a rather nicely dicounted O2 tariff (thanks again Thomas!). I have had a good chance to play around with it, tweaking settings and so on, and suffice it to say, the experience is rather different compared to my previous second-or-third-hand phones on pay-as-you-go tariffs!I'm going to write a fairly in-depth review based on what I think is important about this mobile phone. Apologies if I miss what may seem important to you. Feel free to post a comment though if you'd like to know more!
All I want to do is TopUp!
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Friday, 30 January 2009 10:30 | 0 commentsI ran into an infuriating problem while attempting to fill my car with petrol at a Morrisons supermarket recently. The petrol pumps all looked fairly normal, except for the addition of a device below the petrol and price gauge. I had seen the kind of device before, from a distance -- it was designed to let you pay directly at the pump if you have an appropriate card (I think it will take most credit/debit cards), rather than having to stand in line at the kiosk to pay.