Self-checkouts & online shopping

Unusable podcast (UX & usability)

08-06-2019 • 44 mins

We discuss the Queen going shopping & being shown how self-checkouts work, & we discuss their advantages & annoyances. Also Andy has a story about a lame practical joke on a teacher using his Tesco club card.
Apologies for the terrible German at the beginning!

Other things we talk about:

  • Online grocery shopping
  • Amazon's AI-powered grocery store
  • Andy's lame practical joke on a teacher using a Tesco club card
  • Andy's "Freezer beige"
  • Self-checkout celebrity voices
  • Reasons why people don't like self-checkouts
  • UX trends for shopping websites in 2019
  • Andy meets a man named Martin in some old-fashioned bank

Links mentioned:

The Unusable podcast is presented by Andrew Waite & David Ball, who discuss the importance of user experience (UX) in technology & the world around us, & talk about great design that just works - or moan about it when it doesn't. Here's the link to the episode: https://podcast.theunusable.com/podcasts/011-self-checkouts-online-shopping.mp3 Music is by [Gold5472](https://gold5472.newgrounds.com/)

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