Mike Dizon and I went out for lunch around New Work City one day. We walked past Pepe Rosso, a pasta take-out joint on Sullivan St. that Mike insists is the best around. So I poked my head in to take a look, and saw this sign hanging in the entrance: No breastfeeding in Pepe [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Humor'
Photo of the day: No breastfeeding
May 8th, 2009 · 35 Comments · Humor, Photography
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Digital Conversion PSA
April 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Customer Experience, Humor
On June 12, 2009, analog will die. The Digital TV Transition (DTV) website has everything you need to know about making the switch. There are no less than 50 pages of full text explaining how to painlessly prepare. A variety of downloadable PDFs are available to guide you through the converter box installation process. There’s [...]
Tags:Customer Experience·Humor·Pain
April Fools jokes around the web — causing user pain?
April 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Digressions, Humor
Shockingly, a bunch of people really believed that I was putting my career as a user experience designer on hold in order to become a motivational speaker. But there have been much bigger jokes floating around the web today in honor of April Fools’ Day, some of which are cute and silly, and others of [...]
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My favorite terms from The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit 2008 — Part 1
February 20th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Digressions, Humor
Today as I was cleaning up my desk, I found my old 2008 Page-A-Day Calendar of The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit. I used to have it on my desk at Liquidnet and got a huge kick out of lamenting a new bullshit term every day. The definitions are hilarious and merciless. Sometimes the terms were [...]
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User Centered Design is now closed
February 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Humor, User Experience
Last year at IA Summit 2008, Jared Spool declared that it was time for us to retire the dogma of user-centered design, citing that the most effective design teams don’t follow a specific methodology, but instead have a whole toolbox of techniques and tricks to use when the time is right. Flip through his slides [...]
