Hi Mark,
Thanks for this!
Regrettably the BBC iPlayer doesn't work for TV programmes
outside the UK; only radio works.
Not very usefully, you won't have got the message saying this.
Only those people who want to watch, but are not in the UK,
receive the message saying they can't.
So, I guess you probably didn't know that many (most?) of us
won't be able to watch this programme.
It's an example of poor design, but not, I would say of the
BBC iPlayer, at least, not just this. It would be better if
you're Email editor could check that a link you chose to
include in a post to PhD-Design list, which it can lookup
somewhere and see is an international mailing list, will or
will not work for all countries, and then warn you of what it
finds. This is all perfectly doable, but not (yet) done.
It's still the case that most Email editors just support text
editing, and even then often allowing users to do ghastly
things with text setting, fonts, and colours--which these
editors could also help avoid or advise against.
The tune of "Qui peut dire où vont les fleurs?" (Where have
all the flowers gone?) often comes to me on these occasions,
but, as I hear Marlene Dietrich singing this in my head, I
silently replace "flowers" with "designers."
So what is the music we're missing for not seeing this?
Best regards,
Tim
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On Feb 6, 2013, at 12:37 , Mark Evans wrote:
> As a populist overview of the UK ‘design scene’, members of the List might be interested in a BBC Culture Show Design Special that includes the latest work of Dunne & Raby; Hilary Cottam’s design thinking consultancy; and an insight into design hacking.
>
> The link self-destructs on 8 February.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01qgdj0/
>
> I just like the music……
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Mark
>
> Dr Mark Evans
> Reader in Industrial Design
> Loughborough Design School
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