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Charlie Chaplin: Google Doodle celebrates 122 years since his birth!

by Theo Mandel | Apr 15, 2011 | Usability Humor, User Experience, Web 2.0

Friday post – Google Doodle celebrates Charlie Chaplin’s birth with an original video celebrating Chaplin. Google, the world’s most popular and most visited website is known for its celebration of special days and occasions but has only rarely featured a...

Making “Boring” Better – Virgin America Airlines In-Flight Video

by Theo Mandel | Sep 17, 2010 | Real-World Usability, Usability Humor, User Experience

Mark Hurst of Good Experience posted this on how Virgin America improved the user experience of passengers on their flights. Other airlines should learn from this experience. ______________________________________ How Virgin America’s customer experience turns...

New Users for the iPad – Iggy (a cat) investigates an iPad

by Theo Mandel | Apr 28, 2010 | Real-World Usability, Uncategorized, Usability Humor, Users

You knew this would happen sooner or later. Now that there is a large touch-based tablet, little kids and pets are now experimenting with this new user interface! YouTube is now getting flooded with videos of pets playing with an iPad. Here’s one of many. Enjoy!...

Reverse Psychology – Microsoft makes Game out of the Office Ribbon

by Theo Mandel | Mar 15, 2010 | Social Networking, Technology, Usability Bloopers, Usability Humor, Users

In the spirit of the developer’s credo – “That’s not a bug, that’s a feature!” – Microsoft has created a game that gives users points for finding and using commands on the Office Ribbon toolbar. Usually companies don’t...

Bad Usability! Humorous Slideshare Presentation

by Theo Mandel | Nov 27, 2009 | Usability Bloopers, Usability Humor, Web 2.0, Web Usability

A humorous, poetic, simple and elegant presentation about bad usability based on the Bad Usability calendar (www.badusability.com/). >

Hilarious Google “Opt-Out” Parody

by Theo Mandel | Oct 3, 2009 | Real-World Usability, Social Networking, Technology, Usability Bloopers, Usability Humor

The Onion, a famous print and online parody newspaper, has a hilarious news video parody of Google’s “Opt-Out” policy. >
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