Tag: Letter from the UK

Nov 17

Letter from the UK: Locali(s/z)ing for English

The strict “Street, City, State, Zip code” format doesn’t always translate well overseas. In the UK, we have a unique postcode for roughly every 20 houses, so you only need a customer’s postcode and house number to be able to pinpoint their location. We don’t have States and not everyone lives in a city. This means the format of people’s addresses can vary, but not cause problems for the postman. If you force the user to follow the US format, or use the US format in your examples, they might struggle to know what to enter.

Nov 06

Letter from the UK: Lessons from The Information Age exhibition

On the 24th October, The Queen opened a new gallery at The Science Museum, called “The Information Age”. The Information Age gallery takes visitors on a journey through the history of modern communications, from the telegraph to the smartphone. Exhibits on show include the broadcast equipment behind the BBC’s first radio programme in 1922, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer, which hosted the first website