Tamlyn Rhodes
About: I am a part time usability & interface design consultant at PlusNet. The rest of my time is split between various freelance, voluntary and open source projects.
Things that particularly excite me at the moment include jQuery & DOM scripting in general, typography, user centred design, the design of everyday things (both literally and the book by that title), getting my blog started, producing my monthly mix tape podcast, my new phone (take a photo and bam! it's on Flickr!) and loads of other stuff...
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Twitter Trending Topics
--The @trendingtopics Twitter bot tweets the topics that people are talking about most on Twitter. There’s also an RSS feed if you’re interested. It’...
Mixtape vol. 8 - “Yes”
--Phew! It’s been a while. I actually compiled this mix back in May or June but didn’t get round to finishing it until now. Once again th...
Search terms instead of URLs
--Web addresses are horrible. They’re difficult to remember and poorly understood. Which is why I found the recent trend of suggesting search t...
Heartfelt customer service
--I read an interesting letter yesterday from Ecotricity, my electricity supplier. I received it a couple of weeks ago but hadn’t opened it bec...
Guerilla user testing in Sheffield
--Note: cross-posted from the PlusNet Community site. Myself, Sam & Matt went out to Sheffield city centre on Monday afternoon for a spot of use...
Google Lively sign-up usability
--I had a quick play with Google Lively this morning. I’m going to avoid the obvious what-the-hell-is-Google-doing-releasing-a-shit-imitation-o...
Things I found in my car (that I didn’t put there)
--The car doctor unexpectedly had the car valeted, washed and partially resprayed. It looks pretty good now so I felt I had to do something about the...
NME.com in numbers
--Here’s a screenshot of a typical NME.com page at a resolution of 1280×1024. 38% of the page is adverts. 10% is content (18% if you coun...
Book Review: Web Form Design
--Luke Wroblewksi’s new book on web form design, cunningly entitled Web Form Design, is an excellent work. It’s very easy to read (I bree...
Server-side Greasemonkey
--Today’s Gmail Labs announcement got me thinking about ways to allow users to customise a site. Greasemonkey is amazing but the problem is tha...
Reinventing Facebook’s Photo Albums
--Facebook’s photo albums have the potential to be really, really good. As it is they’re just about passable. I’d like to present m...
easyJet Global Warming Propaganda
--“Flying produces a fraction of global greenhouse gases” says the reassuring sticker on the seat in front of me. “Ah, well that...
GeekUp Slides (Updated)
--Thanks to everyone who came down to the Fat Cat this evening. I had a great time and I think others did too. Here are the slides from my Pecha Kuch...
Cool Things
--So it’s Monday again and… what it’s Tuesday? Where did Monday go? And I’ve got to do what by the end of the week? If being ...
Cheeky Email Form
--It’s become quite a common practice to ask for websites to ask for your email address twice on sign-up forms. Re-confirming your email addres...
GeekUp Sheffield
--I’m honoured and excited to be doing a presentation at the first GeekUp Sheffield next Wednesday. It’s a condensed version of a worksho...
Chinwag Live: Real World Usability
--I’ll be going to Chinwag Live: Real World Usability next week courtesy of PlusNet. It’s a panel discussion about where usability is hea...
Underground Overground
--Do you sometimes feel you spend more time on the London Underground then actually at the office? Village Underground have gone a step further and c...
Mixtape vol. 7 - “For Great Justice”
--My original plan for a-mix-a-month fell through in January when I failed to produce anything. Now I’ll just put these out as and when I have ...
Disadvantages of Working From Home
--I’ve just been without electricity for half an hour while the landlady installed our new oven and I helped her carry the old one out to the b...
Mixtape vol. 6 - “Half Way Round”
--So here it is, Merry Podmas… and not a Christmas song in sight! It’s an easy-listening, I’ve-eaten-too-much-please-don’t-ma...
Mixtape vol. 5 - “Four to the Floor”
--With 33% extra FREE!!! Download the mix and/or subscribe in iTunes. Trickski - At Les Âme - Mifune DJ Gregory - Elle (Âme Remix) ...
How to confuse your customers
--I got a spam MMS from my mobile provider, 3, this afternoon with a short video promoting Yahoo! Go. At the end were some instructions: We’d ...
Mixtape vol. 4 - “Moderate or Good, Occasionally Poor”
--Just in time for October. Download the mix and/or subscribe in iTunes. Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz Para One - Musclor feat. TTC Has...
LOL(cat)
--from xkcd, see also Lolcats if you need an explanation
Mixtape vol. 3 - “Cinematic” Edition
--This month’s mixtape comes to you from Durban, South Africa. Actually I’m back in London now but I made it while I was there last week....
Keep Walking
--Just after reading Ryan Carson’s two posts about airport advertising, I was in Johannesburg airport yesterday and noticed these: The cleve...
Data Rot
--Every time a new storage technology comes along someone predicts that in 1000 years time, mankind will have lost the knowledge of how to read today...
Podcast 2 - “Public Health & Safety” Edition
--From the sunny climes of Corsica, comes this second installment. Enjoy it! Back in London tomorrow morning and going straight to Notting Hill to ca...
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