A few weeks ago Orian sent me a hilarious but sad cartoon on the all-too-familiar process of cumulative error and product dilution during a project life cycle: customer request -> finance -> engineering -> manufacturing -> marketing -> delivery. Not only do we fail to deliver on what was proposed, but what the customer said [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Humor'
What the customer actually wanted
October 1st, 2009 · 9 Comments · Design, Humor, Pain
Tags:Design·Humor·Methodology·Pain·User Experience·Web Development
Photo of the day: Private Parts in Public
July 7th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Design, Photography
This big guy stands in the lobby of the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle. As I walked around it the other day, I noticed something curious about his ding-a-ling — it’s a different color than the rest of his body. Which means that more than a few people have been rubbing it as they [...]
Tags:Design·Humor·Photography
Photo of the day: No Yes No No
July 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Humor, Photography
That’s her response to the question, “Can I take you home?” Found in the ladies’ room at Clery’s Bar in Boston, where the An Event Apart after party was held. Related Posts: Photo of the day: Pen Pocket Photo of the day: Do Not Disturb Photo of the day: Calorie Counts at Dunkin Donuts Photo [...]
Tags:Humor·Photography
In case of fire: Do Not Use Twitter
June 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Humor, Photography, Twitter
Last week this photo was posted to BuzzFeed and made the rounds on Twitter. It’s originally from johnpiercy on Flickr. I think it looks doctored, but John isn’t sure. It’s just too hilarious to be real! What do you think? P.S. If I was caught in or near a fire, I definitely WOULD use Twitter. [...]
Tags:Humor·Photography·Twitter
What REALLY happened during the IA Summit (#IAS09)
May 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Conferences
To discover what we were really talking about during IA Summit 2009, Damon Herren used Wordle to create a word cloud visualization from all of the tweets containing the hashtag #IAS09. And what’s smack dab in the middle? Me! I know I tweet up a storm when I’m at conferences, but the @ prefacing my [...]
Tags:Conferences·Humor
