January at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web 2006 at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web

Just a teaser for what you’ve got to look forward to here. Over the next few weeks and months I’m going to be part of a group charged with redesigning our corporate intranet. This project has the added complication of merging two company’s information into a coherent whole.

I expect information architecture, usability and accessibility to play a key role in such a major overhaul and look forward to working from the ground up in cycles of review, design and test. I’ll be covering my progress here.

Just how bad can a website get? How bad is the Odeon’s website? I don’t know where to start. I’ve been checking it occasionally for a number of months, and in all that time it has never improved. Here I blow off steam about a design that has driven me mad.

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I’ve been a keen reader of the Observer for a number of years until recently switching to The Independent. This desertion was almost entirely due to the Independant’s change in format to a smaller, tabloid size. Both papers are equally readable and, I suppose, politically agreeable, but following our move to a new flat I’ve been reassessing a lot of my everyday decisions from an environmentally-aware viewpoint. The new Indy is smaller, smaller means less paper, less paper means fewer trees chopped down and less waste.

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