Product idea for UK primary school parents: A re-usable dressing-up costume for special school dress-up days. Hear me out…
Take a toga-style dress and sew on a bunch of Velcro patches.
Then sell kits of stick-on adornments. Fur (for cavemen day), a sash and gold bits (for Romans Day), red dots (for Comic Relief), coloured dots (for Children in Need) and various attachments for world book day!
@ross Maybe its time to embrace your real role as king maker, holder of the true vote and the most important person in any decision the one who can be swayed by actual logic.
Back from holiday! Yay! So what was the story with the hire car?
Well. We had some credit with a hire car company from a booking we cancelled years ago. We needed something bigger than our EV for this trip as we were taking an extra passenger. So we used our credit to hire a Peugeot 3008 “crossover”-style car. Petrol. Automatic.
What did I hate about it, apart from being really noisy at low speed and the jolts of gear changes that we weren’t used to?
The steering wheel was small as well. Which meant that… you could not see any of the controls on the stalks! Which is fine if it’s your car and you’ve memorised everything. But I only had a week and no instruction manual.
Finally, while I liked the real buttons, there was shiny edging in the interior that, at times, reflected bright sunlight at me from several directions at once.
Oh, and the display brightness setting was buried in an obscure menu in the touchscreen. Which totally threw me when I first turned the lights on and could barely see the display.
Just SO badly designed. Was glad to hand it back.
Yes. First world problems or whatever. Thanks for enduring my rant.
Working in marketing and eCommerce has taught me that I’m a bit of a weirdo.
Tiny UX tweaks will not affect my purchase. If I want to purchase something and the cart is just a little bit shit, I’m not gonna then go and buy something else.
I find cart reminder emails extremely annoying.
I will hunt down your pricing page if I it kills me. Moving the link to it will make it easier/harder, but I WILL find it.