I’ve just had Windows XP installed on my work Mac (using VMware Fusion) - which is proving to be awesome for checking out designs/sites through the horrifying world of a PC browser (geez PC… ever think about looking into anti-aliasing!?). However, on launching Internet Explorer 6, I’m presented with this…

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A conflict of interest recently provoked me to question:
Should we do something simply because we can?
And I think this is an extremely valid question you should ask yourself when you design anything. I guess that links, in some way, to the BBC’s Web Principles which I discussed back in June - and makes me wonder If we don’t question everything - then how can we ever expect to be different?

…WHY would I want to have an annotation pop up every time I press the N key?!
At least 10 times a day, every day, I end up with an annotation with a random letter on it (like when I reach, with one of my monkey-fingers, for the ‘M’ key… and miss). It’s fucking irritating - sort it out!
Despite today being the day we launch a Project Bubble HTML thank you email, and partly due to the fact that I’m being increasingly overwhelmed with the amount of HTML newsletters I have to design… I have to ask the question of whether the world (still) needs HTML emails? (more…)
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