Easy Pay etc.
Signing up for Easy Pay, Auto Pay, Quick Bill, or whatever your biller wants to call it is a great way to make sure things are paid on time. I use it for my cable and cell phone bills, and I’m happy that I don’t have to stress it.
My problem lies in the paperless billing email reminder. It makes me worry that the bill isn’t going to get paid - there are big reminders about due date, links to “Pay Bill Now” and all kinds of other things that make me doubt my automatic bill pay status. Why are you showing me a link to pay the bill if it will automatically be paid later?
I do still want the reminder email so that I can look over my bill - make sure I’m not being charged too much for something, see how many minutes/movies I’ve used this month, whatever. I guess my ideal solution would be for the reminder email to say: Here is a link to view your bill, here is how much is due, we are confirming that you are signed up for automatic bill pay, and here is the date when we’ll withdraw the money from your account. Is that so hard?
Industry Leaders Dell and OPI Partner to Deliver a New Polished Laptop Collection | Dell
Granted, You Don’t Know Jacques is my favorite shade recently, but seriously?!? Nail polish laptops? UGH! Dell, don’t you have anything better to offer women than pretty colors?
Sri’s take on mobile research - we need to find new metaphors for mobile - the desktop isn’t the only place to look for inspiration!
We did our taxes last night, and used the online TurboTax system to get through it all. I’m glad to say that it only took an hour and we came away very pleased!
With tax season upon us, I’m hearing all kinds of radio and TV commercials for TurboTax, and they’ve got this strange metaphor going on in their ads: it will guide you like a GPS system.
I did some research and design last summer where a lot of our participants talked about TurboTax as a metaphor for how the system we were designing should work. They said… it asks you questions, it guides you, it tells you what steps to take next. I find it funny that now TurboTax has to use a metaphor for how their system works. If the GPS manufacturers start using a metaphor for how their nav systems work, I’m at a loss.
It turns out that InDesign has a simple and very straightforward way for converting any object into a button that can execute a myriad of navigation commands. Yeah yeah, I’m getting to the sexy part. The point is that within one click you, and I, can EXPORT TO SWF!!! Hell yeah. I flipped out when the realities played out in my head around FINALLY being able to generate rapid prototypes that could also support rapid iteration.
– Lightweight Prototyping with Adobe InDesign « People & Things Interacting with StuffGoogle Request
I really wish that I could share my google account with my husband, but not have to share gmail.
I use a lot of google things: calendar, docs, task lists, etc. and having to manually share them with him (send him permissions via email) is annoying. The calendar, docs, tasks – those are all “household” things for us - that both of us care about and need to be able to edit easily.
One google account for the house would be great! Except that we’d have the same gmail. Maybe I’m wrong (hopefully). Anyone out there have any knowledge to drop on this?
side note: did you know that as soon as you type a question mark in to the text box in tumblr, it pops up a checkbox on the right that says ” [ ] Let people answer this ” !!! Amazing!
The pope, whose own presence on the Web has heavily grown in recent years, urged priests on Saturday to use all multimedia tools at their disposal to preach the Gospel and engage in dialogue with people of other religions and cultures.
And just using e-mail or surfing the Web is often not enough: Priests should use cutting-edge technologies to express themselves and lead their communities, Benedict said in a message released by the Vatican.
About Me
I live a simple life in Columbus, Ohio. I have an awesome husband, the best dog ever, and amazing family and friends that make me laugh everyday. I am a user experience designer at Lextant. I'm a technophile, feminist, TV and movie lover, and an organization and uncluttered enthusiast. I'm also really into maps and wayfinding.
