Lon Barfield

@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?

@lonbarfield Hi there, with regards to Family & Friends Railcards, they can only be downloaded to one device. The T&Cs for this can be found here > bit.ly/3D7dRvN in the Using a Family & Friends Railcard section. Thanks, ~Cat.

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

@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.

@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.

Good design isn't always whizzy, it's simple changes like spacing and simple components. Great words from @brucel 😍

@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.

@tholder are you planning on coming back to Bristol?

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

@tholder are you back in Bristol?

@KateClanchy1 I remember this poem!

Lockdown started three years ago today. What do you remember?

@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.

Half of British television always starts like this.

@qikipedia unhelpful and unexplained information there

Depending on your diet, riding a pedal bike could be 20 times less environmentally friendly than riding an electric one.

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

This is the best we could do as a city to tell people from presumably quite often not this city where to get the bus to Bristol Airport from Temple Meads. Extraordinary. Tacked to a lampost.

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? 🙋‍♂️⬇️

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.)

@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.

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

There's no such thing as an entirely historically accurate film. These are the Movies That Actually Got History Right

@ilincaiurascu A German person?

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

@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.

I wonder how far in physical distance the average person scrolls on social media platforms per year? Would be interesting to visualise it as an incentive to scroll less like 1000 steps in reverse