Site visits
It’s always fascinating to take a look through your server logs or visitor stats. This little old blog gets a tiny number of hits a day but recently that number has been climbing. Interested to see how people are finding me and what they are reading I had a look through my recent visitor numbers.
Interestingly, I’m getting visited by something at one specific IP address again and again but apparently using different browsers and operating systems. One quick IP look-up later and it seems Adobe are hitting me about ten times a day, every day. Either someone there loves trees too or else some sort of bot is coming back again and again.
Adobe don’t have a search engine (as far as I know) so why are they bothering? Have I managed to offend them, or has a page of my site somehow got saved in their browser lab? Enquiring minds want to know! Anyone got any ideas?
In Favour of Complexity
I was fortunate enough to attend the sell-out ‘UX London’ conference at The Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch this year (June 15th – 17th). It was the first conference if its type here in London aimed at user experience practitioners and ably presented by the good folk at Clearleft. There were some big names in attendance – both lecturing and running half-day workshops. more »
How to turn a light off in the dark
Hotel rooms present a variety of novel user-interactions to their often tired and stressed guests. But do travellers really value chic design and high-concept living when all they want to do is turn off the lights and go to sleep? more »
Poka-yoke
Poka yoke, pronounced “POH-kah YOH-keh” — is a Japanese term that translates as “mistake-proofing” (from the Japanese yokeru (avoiding) and poka (inadvertent errors). A poka-yoke device is any mechanism that either prevents a mistake from being made or makes the mistake obvious at a glance. The idea is to prevent errors from being made in the first place, or if they are made, making those errors very obvious. The concept was formalised on the Toyota production lines by the Japanese industrial engineer Shigeo Shingo. more »