Safety in Numbers
Posted by Dan on the 24 June in General |
At Design Militia we care about our clients’ (and future clients’) data and keeping your content safe. After all, you're spending time creating it and carefully optimizing for search engines and people, the last thing you want is to worry about is losing it. Backing up isn’t the most interesting subject (I’ll try and make it a little fun to read) but since we’ve improved and streamlined the...
Why filling in credit cards forms online is painful
Posted by Tim on the 23 June in User Experience |
Why some companies choose to make filling these forms harder than they need to be is beyond us at Design Militia. A simple web form for filling in your payment details normally consists of:
- Card number
- Expiry date
- CVV/CVC code (security code on the back of most cards).
Let's take the expiry date as an example. The website shall remain nameless. On all credit and debit cards, expiry...
Email address and usernames
Posted by Tim on the 28 May in Copy Writing |
During our time developing login systems for sites such as the CMA we’ve run into a few interesting things that effect us all every day, so I want to take a few minutes to talk about one of them.
When we first saw the pre-Design Militia CMA site, it required users to log into the membership area via a username and password. While we initially evaluated this system and decided to transfer it...
Improving the Sainsbury’s experience
Posted by Tim on the 27 May in User Experience |
User Experience
So next week sees the start of “I’m running Sainsbury’s” on Channel 4. Certainly a shameless marketing ploy on the part of the supermarket giant but we're definitely intrigued here at the Design Militia bunker.
The basic concept is to allow shop floor workers, the foot troopers of the Sainsbury’s army, the power to make changes to the way Sainsbury’s stores are run, letting them make changes...