Lon Barfield

Information & technology & people. Lecturer. Writer. UX for AI.

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@thetrainline So you are anchoring your product success on users reading the T&Cs? That is a non starter in ux terms. Does anybody ever read the T&Cs of a service?

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@thetrainline after my UX complaint I see that you are doing something about it

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@thetrainline Wife bought a family railcard on your app, put my email down as the other adult. I get an email saying 'simply sign in to view your Railcard'. What it didn't mention is that it only works if I log in with *my wife's login* instead of using my own. 1 hour wasted.

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@laura_yarrow @brucel For real subtlety read Jan Tschichold's 'The Form of the Book' wherein he spends several paragraphs discussing the m-dash and the n-dash.

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@amysampsonuk I gave my students the option of using ChatGPT to write their essay as long as they declared it and explained thier process and prompts.

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@tholder are you planning on coming back to Bristol?

[Lucinda Rouse @LHRouse]

When you try to cheat the system and save some money by split-ticketing a day return to London for a family of five. I think South Western Railway had the last laugh here @seatsixtyone

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@tholder are you back in Bristol?

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@KateClanchy1 I remember this poem!

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@BBCr4today Re: dark skies village. Blue tinged LEDs are also bad for human night vision. That's why subs switch to red light onboard when they surface, it keeps thier night vision sharp when they go up top.

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

Half of British television always starts like this.

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@qikipedia unhelpful and unexplained information there

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@cavworld yeah it's such a shame - welcome to Britain, welcome to Bristol - welcome to our shambolic public transport.

[Justin on eurostar @EurostarJustinp]

Hands up if you didn't realise that you can't currently take a cheese sandwich with you if you're travelling from England, Scotland, or Wales to Northern Ireland?
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[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

World book day - One company has given over 130 million books to children in the past ten years. - McDonalds. (not a fan, but interesting stat.)

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@paula_jn_ Let them know in an email about improving thier processes for the future. Email policy is important in an era when we get so much email that AI has to help us with it.

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@sciencea2zmag Well they had to get that one right otherwise he'd have an angry outburst about it.

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@ilincaiurascu A German person?

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@gbelrose Python is cool, I’ve only ever done small stuff with it but it’s so terse you can put things together fast.

[Lon Barfield @lonbarfield]

@chudders I have a file of notes for a ‘give up Facebook’ book. One figure I’d be interested in is to take the last 100 items on your feed and classify them (ad/group/friend etc) to see what percent of posts are actually meaningful to you.