Monthly Archive for September, 2008

Elections in Austria – disapointing

Yesterday the Austrian parliament was elected. It wasn’t within the normal term, because the cabinet existing of the two main parties was struggeling. Now they had to pay the bill. Both big parties lost socialists as well as the conservatives. Interesting is too that the “green” party (ecologists) also lost. Disapointing is that out of this the two right winged parties FPÖ and BZÖ have won votes. I like they arguments of the liberals, which are positioned straight in the middle of the political scenery (including social responsibility) didn’t reach enough votes to get into the parliament :-(

Now, as it has been for ages, Austrian politicians are discussing what to learn from the elections and are struggling who will be able to form the new cabinet. And that’s the most anoying part of all!

when the wrong persons define interactions

Many times it’s a bad idea that websites, IT-systems are designed by programmers. Most times their implementation model doesn’t match the mental model of an application. The other side is that designers make nice visual things that don’t work neither from usability view nor from implementation view.

A “good” bad-example for that is the new quiz from Esprit. A flash game for winning vouchers or an iPod. You need to register for it. It’s so wonderful to fill out a form with textboxes consisting of grey font-color on grey background. The next highlight is the mixed tab-order you would never expect

Beautiful Switzerland

Last weekend we’ve been to Pilatus, Lucerne. I love this country.


Ligurien

Es war eine wunderbare Woche Anfang September in bella Italia