Comments for Simply Understand

Comment on Designing an iPhone app by Anne

Anne — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:33:29 +0000

I like this concept. I’ve often wondered about a sort of twitter for public transport. As in, I turn to Twitter when I want to know what’s happening down the road, I could turn to this when my bus doesn’t arrive to see that people a few stops ahead complaining about the argumentative passenger who’s holding up the service.

Comment on Three reasons to use plain language by Corinne

Corinne — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:44:46 +0000

Oh absolutely! I do think some people fear that it will be their normal rounds of sign off (painful enough) plus some extra. Part of that is that sometimes plain language / English means different things to different people.

Comment on Three reasons to use plain language by Three reasons to use plain language | information architecture | Scoop.it

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:29:00 +0000

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Comment on Three reasons to use plain language by Dave Fox

Dave Fox — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:49:03 +0000

Three great reasons. It always amazes me that organisations don’t realise how much money they could save. This will usually far outweigh any costs involved in making the message clear.

I don’t think the ’rounds of internal sign-off’ are necessarily a feature of plain English. I’ve seen plenty of hideous documents that have been QA’d endlessly and are still impenetrable!

Comment on Three reasons to use plain language by Ingrid

Ingrid — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:38:05 +0000

Quite right!

I think the trustworthiness factor is key. I think organizations often think people trust them simply because of who they are — well, not so. There is definitely a competative advantage for those who make sure people can understand them.

Great post!

Comment on Ten tips to remember about writing in plain language by Three reasons to use plain language

Three reasons to use plain language — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:20:34 +0000

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Comment on Infographics: the outer limits? by Corinne

Corinne — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:41:23 +0000

Nope, that’s going to be on something else

Comment on Infographics: the outer limits? by Eva

Eva — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:46:02 +0000

Do I see the beginning of a dissertation thesis here?

Comment on Finding the way by Corinne

Corinne — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:33:06 +0000

Well, you have to take the client into account as well, and user test it thoroughly… otherwise what’s the point? One of last year’s students did an entirely light-based wayfinding system around campus — the mockups looked dead pretty, and useful too!

Comment on Finding the way by Simon W

Simon W — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:12:22 +0000

We used to do a bit of that in the lighting consultancy — using lighting to aid in wayfinding around city centres, often between transport nodes. It was interesting work, but I always felt a little uncomfortable with it. In hindsight, I think I felt that we were amateurs messing around with somebody else’s urban environment…