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Bad Usability

by Jorge Martin on Mar 04, 2008

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A cautionary tale for designers inspired by the bad usability calendar.

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Bad Usability Presentation Transcript

Bad, bad usability! horrible things happen to bad designers

A is for Albert who chose the wrong form for his content run into the Spanish Inquisition and expired, after some torment

B is for Bertha who tried to add value through personalisation went to Tajikistan on vacation and died of starvation

C is for Charles who hid novel choices in a drop-down and was murdered by a clown in a small town

D is for Derek who didn’t use video to support the user’s task, went off scuba diving and forgot his oxygen mask

E is for Edwina for everything required a log-in and contracted a deadly herpes after a bit of snogging

F is for Fernando who designed usable and boring, the poor man was splattered in spite of much imploring

G is Georgie who thought smaller was easier to click hired a plane for a week, couldn’t find the control stick

H is for Helena who believed more navigation was easy to use she went to Oliver’s party and died of carnal abuse

I is for Ignatius who copied every fancy web 2.0 feature and was strangled by his French teacher

J is for Josephine who evangelised oversharing and was swallowed by a big herring

K is for Katarina who always cloned Facebook, she traveled to Irak, just to have a look

beware

and

beware!

amgolop Well done Congratulation 1 year ago

Are you sure you want to

hamzajilani Amazing presentation about usability. 2 years ago

Thor Fredrik Eie, Senior Usability Specialist at NetLife Research Just wanted to let you know the 2009 calendar is out over at www.badusability.com 4 years ago

Enrico Foschi, Front End Leader at SkillPages Loved the presentation! Well said mbalara, informative but also creative and fun.

I have been in my past Albert, Bertha, Charles, Ignatius (a lot until few years ago) and
Josephine. 4 years ago

vishalgeorge loved it. 4 years ago

Matt Balara, UX Designer at the moment looking for a job in London Finally! A presentation that's not only informative, but also creative and fun. Well done! But boo hoo, M is for Missing Download... 4 years ago

aeolivas I love it, really nice... you should make it downloadable 5 years ago

Thor Fredrik Eie, Senior Usability Specialist at NetLife Research Incredibly cool! A big warm thanks from all of us at NetLife Research - the people behind the Bad Usability Calendar. 5 years ago

Stuart Hemerling, Senior Consultant at Prophis Research // Strategic Bit i think this is just brilliant, clever, creative, clear. 5 years ago

Manish K, Director innovation Labs at iridiuminteractive ltd Agreed this is too good 5 years ago