Usability Humor

The Usability Humor listed below provides a selection of some of the most enjoyable and memorable humor we've found on the Web pertaining to usability.

Comic Strips

• Dilbert - Scott Adams

• OK/CANCEL - Kevin Cheng

• User Friendly - J.D. Frazer

Cartoons

• "Get rid of research and technical testing" - Dilbert from GUI Bloopers, Jeff Johnson

• "I'd better add ‘easy to use’ to the list" - Dilbert from Usability 101

• "No wonder your arm aches" - Original Artist

• "Stop referring to me as user-friendly" - Original Artist

• "We'll never meet a customer ourselves" - Dilbert from Usability 101

• "What the User Wanted" - University of Oregon

• "You're giving me cramps" - Larson Technical Services

Jokes

• Exercise Your Interface With the GOMSerciser - Mark Roseman

• HAIKU Error Messages - Salon | 21st Haiku Error Message Challenge

• If Microsoft Built Cars

• If OS's Ran the Airlines - EPSS Central

• The Nature of Human Cognition - EPSS Central

• The Nature of Human Perception - EPSS Central

• A Nose Gesture Interface Device: Extending Virtual Realities - Tyson R. Henry

• Official Florida Presidential Ballot - EPSS Central

• A Parody of the Microsoft Office Interface - EPSS Central

• The Typical Usability Review Process - Chris McEvoy

• Usability Review of a Remote Control - Usability Must Die

• Use It Or Lose It (Parodies of Jakob Nielsen) - Seth Neilson

• Who Wants to Marry a Software Engineer?

• World's First HCI Rap: "We Got It" - OK/CANCEL

Quotes

• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
  - Albert Einstein

• "Don't make me think."
  - Steve Krug

• "If I can see it, it's a failure."
  - Bill Buxton

• "Know thy user, and you are not thy user."
  - Arnie Lund

• "Most software needs to be spanked."
  - Alan Cooper

• "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
  - New Yorker, July 5, '93, p. 61

• "To err is human, to really foul things up you need a computer."
  - Paul Ehrlich

• "What's up with the hypertext? I click and click and click but there's nothing!"
  - Overheard in the lab