Could you see your organization putting up messages like this?

Would a human operator have done this?

Ashley McKee discusses how when it comes to usability, everything on the inside is just as important as everything on the outside.

Many Eyes is an interesting research project at IBM, allowing users to upload data sets and produce interesting visualizations. The following is a visualization of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ 4/19 Senate Testimony, as rendered in a tag cloud:

While I applaud the designers for using something a little less subtle than just removing the link, the phrase No Next Day troubles me slightly. I wouldn’t mind something a little less, well, ominous. (It reminds me of the phrase I dislike hearing when traveling: my final destination. It always sound so “final.”)

I first discovered In-N-Out Burger during a trip to Las Vegas last March. How I went so many years without knowing the joys of that place is beyond me. My friend brought me to the In-N-Out on Dean Martin Drive, and we waited a good 20 minutes in line just to get up to the [...]

AccuWeather lets you remove ads from your weather-viewing experience for just “pennies a day” — almost.

In the has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed category, we have the Wii Help Cat (see the Quicktime video):

Just before my keynote at the UI11 conference, I showed Alan Becker’s animation called “Animator vs. Animation”. Many people asked me about it, so here’s the link. Alan has a sequel, cleverly called Animator vs. Animation II. You can see other sites I find humorous by following the Humor tag on my Delicious bookmarks.

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Recorded September 11, 2006, we discuss dream panels, CUE studies, whether we’re an engineering discipline or a craft, the value of heuristic evaluations, and how whether we should learn anything from Facebook’s recent loss of face.

Present for this recording were Jared M. Spool, DeWayne Purdy, Kyle Pero, Lyle Kantrovich, Rashmi Sinha, Nate Bolt, and Joshua Porter.

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