Tag Archives: Design patterns

The email confirmation / paste disabling antipattern

Here’s a nice antipattern from the Odeon (UK), who show us how to annoy 99.9% of users in an effort to help the 0.1% who enter their email addresses incorrectly. So, here I am registering on odeon.co.uk… Oh look, I … Continue reading

Can using free software lower the bar for your own design standards?

When you start your own company, there are lots of small decisions that you need to make. What do you splash out on, and what do you pinch pennies on? It’s tricky to decide. One of the common ways to … Continue reading