Monday, March 17, 2014

Words Going Green, via Dictionary.com

St. Patrick's Day is passing by, and in time for that Dictionary.com published a list of words used to describe hues of the colour Green. As fascinating as that was, I wanted to see the colours side by side, and for that I started Google searches and used ColorZilla, a colour picker I use with Firefox to aid in website design. I switched to the image search tab on Google, and a lot of the words produced close matching colours, as you might also see from the shades picked out below.

Click on the colour names below to see the interesting history dictionary.com has dug up!

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

User Experience Notes from Twitter

I wonder if there are enough opinions on Twitter of various products and services, starting from this one by Sarah Silverman:

Or this:
#thankszuckerberg is usually a friendly place in general however.
 

A bit too generic, but true nonetheless:

And then I land on the #UXFail, which has more ways to avoid UX Fails than actual fails, like this complicated mess:

Or this lack of communication:
 Proper customer support can of course go a long way, or lead to books like What Would Google Do? or such tweets: