It’s bad, it’s really bad. The 2012 Olympics brand (it’s more than a logo according to the organisers) has arrived with a price tag of 400,000 GBP. So, what did they get for their million bucks? A hideousley gnarled, flourescent, epilepsy inducing abomination that is the laughing stock of the globe.
Anyone else think that the bit with the rings in it looks like a map of Australia? They even put the ‘TM’ where TasMania should be. How thoughtful!
If you want to work with a ‘brand’ for your olympic games, how about grabbing those rings, slapping 2012 and London on them. Can I have a million please?
It’s that time of year again. Big Brother has just started its 7th season in Australia and I’m sick of it. What started as an interesting experiment in social interaction has degraded into a mindless presentation of half naked bogans.
The show takes over Channel 10 for a few months a year and is cross promoted more than formula 1 and brothels.
I’ve decided that it’s not good enough to not watch the show. Channel 10 need to see that providing such a poor user experience to those viewers who don’t care about Big Brother is costing them viewers.
I have started a fun little site - Boycott 10 - which encourages people to boycott the network for the duration of the show.
Please help the cause by spreading the word.
Kathy Sierra, the author of the brilliant user experience blog, Creating Passionate Users, has had her life thrown into turmoil by some vicious comments and posts circulating the blogosphere.
That a life can be ruined by a few people with evil in their hearts is shocking. Surely those accused - I think Kathy does a pretty good job at pointing the finger at those she assumes are responsible - are in a position to know that they can easily be found. Hey, If the RIAA can find you then surely the authorities will be able to locate those responsible for the comments.
I look forward to them being brought to justice and Kathy returning to her life.
I think this page is more of a criminal web page than a web page about a criminal.
I get angry every time I go to MySpace. Thing is, I just don’t get it! I don’t understand how a site that breaks just about every researched, well understood and documented usability/user experience rule or principle can be one of the most popular and successful properties on the internet. It would have been OK in 1998 but it looks like that is where it is trapped and will stay forever as long as people keep using it like they do!
I ‘get’ user generated. I heart user generated. I think user generated is what the internet is all about. But, I don’t get MySpace!
The page in question, as I’m sure you’ve gathered, was created by the Arkansas Police Department as an attempt to raise public awareness of a wanted armed robber. It seems like a good idea and I’m really impressed with the constabulary embracing the internet and being open to trying new things.
What pisses me off most is the fact that my entire office jumped up and came to my desk when my computer was hijacked by the Citizens on Patrol music that started playing on page load. Further, take a look at the page! Even the MySpace navigation has been made illegible by the greenback background. How can MySpace allow their own navigation style to be hijacked by the user?
So, I guess I really don’t see how the social attraction of MySpace can remain with such poor usability, usefulness, readability and desirability
At a time when my team is busy defining a user experience strategy, I have to ask myself, why do we bother?
MyHome - PBL’s new giant killer website launched today and as far as I can see, it certainly won’t be a giant killer any time soon! I won’t be making it my home for real estate searches.
UI is less than inspiring, functionality is less than functional, many less properties than their competitors.
Not much different or right about it IMHO. I’m convinced that this is destined for failure in its current state. Early days, but I was hoping for something a bit more innovative and definitely something with a much better user experience, that would help people to make the decision to switch.
I am amazed that a company with the resources of PBL can get this so wrong. Surely PBL could have leveraged some of the talent at NineMSN who recently relaunched their site with great improvements to both functionality and user experience.
The site performs so badly and I had so many problems navigating and trying to get my head around the IA and navigation structure that I wonder how a ‘normal’ internet user would ever understand the conceptual model.
I think the teams over at Domain and REA can sleep easy tonight!
