I've got it

OK, I know it's nearly midnight and I should be getting my beauty sleep but, I've got it. Eureka!

Help me choose should be a wizard of some sort. A Selector Wizard, or maybe a Car or Commercial Vehicle Wizard. Anyway Wizard - cool word. Just saw it on the tfl.gov.uk site and had a blinding flash of the obvious.

Wizard of Doom anyone? Well I thought it was a good idea.

Maybe I've just read too much Harry Potter.

Choose-O-Matic advice please

Salespeople are told that they should qualify a customer and find out about their vehicle requirements rather than asking about budget.

This seems to make sense. Have any of you gone in to buy a car, or anything else, and been insulted with the budget question before a salesperson has even asked about how you plan to use the product, or what features you might be interested in?

But even if this is the case, would it be fair to say that you have a rough idea of the amount of money you will be spending on a purchase?

What I need to know, for Choose-O-Matic, is whether we should use a price filter to try and point the consumer in the direction of the right range of vehicles for them to consider. Additionally, if we do include it, should it be the first item in the list for consumers to adjust, or the last item?

The return

I'm back.

Apparently it's been an eventful few weeks. When I've caught up, I'll post an update.

I'm catching up on developments and trying to remember my password.

I'm also off to present to the FoB team this morning and have the pleasure of providing Mark Simpson's team with an update on Friday too. (I know - I don't do Fridays, but this is the exception that proves the rule.)

New Team Members

We have to welcome 3 new team members.

A Belated one to Alex Milosavljivic who joined 4 weeks ago.

And two new starts today Paul McGrath as a Business Analyst and Arpana as the 2nd Project Manager at Wunderman.

Welcome to the ENGInE Team, you dont know what you have let yourself in for

Name Competition

I almost forgot we need to come up with a name for the Help Me Choose, Compare-o-tron-a-matic thingermy bob:

Current suggestions are:

Help Me Choose
Inspire Me
Inspire-o-tron
Compare-o-tron

Answers on a comment or email please

Bad week, Good week

The bad news is that we have missed a deliverable of the creative content for the CMS. Even worse news is that it looks like bad communication is the problem again. On top of this there is a problem that the dynamic content creation of fatwire means that Akamai cache will not shield us from all the traffic requests.

Well after that I hear you ask whats the good news.

Well Ford IT and Wunderman have been tasked to recoup the lost time for the deliverable miss. Initial discusssions are looking promising. The architects will come up with a plan to overcome the cacheing issue.

On top of this we have made some good steps forward in the creative look of the web site and been told to come out of the comfort zone of blocks and grey and move forward with more colours and circles. Even the suggestion of the logo moving was not shot down in flames, but I dont know anyone who wants to take this Mark.

I'm a Lady don't you know

I have the dubious honour of being Ann while she is away on Holiday.