UX News Feed  |  Humor

Co.Design

What Americans Would Give Up For The Internet: Alcohol, Exercise, Showers, Sex

Humor. How important is the Internet to us, really? That’s what Boston Consulting Group asked in their recently released study (PDF), which weighed the Internet’s importance on everything from the global economy (which will account for 5. 2% of GDP for G20 countries by 2016) to individual lives (polls found that 21% of Americans would give up sex for Internet access, but only 10% would give up their cars).

By Mark Wilson, 20 March 2012

Co.Design

Even Better Than iPhone 5: An iPhone With The 1986 Mac OS

Humor. In a fantastical alternate timeline, the original Macintosh was followed up with the iPhone. And this was its interface. read more.

By Mark Wilson, 29 February 2012

Morten Just og Rock

What I need from a shop’s website

E-commerce. I visit websites of real-life shops from time to time. They can be handy and they can be annoying. When I found this Oatmeal comic (that referred to this excellent xkcd diagram) I was reminded about an old sketch I had lying around.

By morten, 9 November 2011

Featured

Lifehacker

Windows 8 Has Finally Updated the Blue Screen of Death [BSoD]

Humor. It took Microsoft long enough, but they've finally (FINALLY!) changed the blue screen of death to be something a little more friendly and a little less scary. More » .

By Jason Chen, 14 September 2011

xkcd.com

Password Strength

Humor.

9 August 2011

xkcd.com

Mac/PC

Humor.

4 August 2011

Featured

UIE Brain Sparks

LL Spool J Releases a New Hit Single

Humor. LL Spool J’s (aka Jared Spool) new single, That’s What It’s About, is his first new release in over six years. “I’ve been keeping in touch with my fans and doing some gigs. While on the road this song came to me. I’m really amped about it.

By Lauren Cramer, 24 June 2011

Scott Berkun » Blog

How to torture your project manager

Humor. If you like your project manager, this is a list of things not to do.   But if they really deserve it, here are proven ways to drive them mad. Never give specific odds or probabilities. Always make ambiguous commitments like “Probably”, “we may be able to do that” or “it’s possible”.

By Scott Berkun, 17 February 2011

Featured

uselog.com | the pro...

'Useful information clutters my design'

Humor. A fairly brilliant Dilbert cartoon about how some designers can prioritize aesthetics over functionality: "If I clutter the design with useful information it will look ugly and I won't be able to use it in my portfolio. " See how it ends here. [Tip: Tommes].

By Jasper (uselog.com), 16 February 2011

Dilbert Daily Strip

Comic for February 6, 2011

Humor.

6 February 2011

Pathfinder Software

Help Restaurants Create Better Websites!

Humor. [note: when you see a painful restaurant website, can you please send them a link to this post or copy and email this to them? It is in all of our best interests that we get better restaurant sites. Thanks!] Dear Restauranteur, We realize that as an entrepreneur you wear a lot of hats, but you probably aren't a web professional. So, we would like to humbly give you some advice to improve the web experience for your customers.

By Todd Wyder, 31 December 2010

Oldie but goodie

xkcd.com

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

Humor.

23 August 2009

The end