In the frenetic passage between 07 and 08 I forgot to close this sorry tale. I did get a visit from the Office for Government Commerce . A very nice lady made the day trip to London and tried to use the online system here in my office, in my seat. And guess what? She was lost after two seconds. Two seconds!! I kid you not. She was confused, flustered, lost for words and a little shame faced. She could neither navigate forwards or backwards and the more she tried to find her way round the more painful the whole thing became.
I thought I had scored a victory for those of us interested in usability. How wrong I was. After a number of weeks of so called investigation, I received a follow up so weak, so lacking in responsibility or understanding of the issues I had to give up the fight lest I develop a hernia. And most of it cut and pasted from the contractor's defence of their own system.
So if you have the misfortune to ever have to use the e-tendering system from bravo solution, or hold out any hope that the UK government will ever invest in user experience, then God you help you.
Monday, 28 January 2008
Monday, 14 January 2008
Web 3.0, enterprise 2.0, head swimming 1.0
With almost 2 year old twins among my 4 kids my home life is like running a second business. Justifiably, to my mind, I am resolutely tuned out when I'm not at work. So returning on Jan 2 was a bit of a shock to the system. I had forgotten how busy we were. Preparing for the first off plan sales at springside and developing the online PR plan to re-launch sanoodi (when it goes beta in Feb) were distant concepts in the fun/food/wine- fuelled haze of christmas at O'Halloran Towers.
Having flown by the seat of my pants into the end of 2007 I had also not really stopped to take stock of where we were, nor considered what would be occupying our thoughts in 2008. Since being back I've been reading great posts on Enterprise 2.0, widgets and Web 3.0. It's only Jan 14 and already my head is spinning with all that potential. Get in a spin too - check out:
Trampoline
RWW
e-gineer
And then lie down
Having flown by the seat of my pants into the end of 2007 I had also not really stopped to take stock of where we were, nor considered what would be occupying our thoughts in 2008. Since being back I've been reading great posts on Enterprise 2.0, widgets and Web 3.0. It's only Jan 14 and already my head is spinning with all that potential. Get in a spin too - check out:
Trampoline
RWW
e-gineer
And then lie down
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