[Sigia-l] Summary: Usability Comics

[Miyon Im]

Thank you all for your contributions!  Following are
the various links I recieved.

In addition to these, I also got several actual
strips, which for obvious reasons I can't just send
out to the list.  If you would like a copy, please
email me and I will send you them.  They are all in
either gif or jpeg format and I have about 6 in all.  
Most of them are Dilbert because the official site
does not archive strips over 30 days old.  Secondly,
when requesting these files, please specify if you
would like them attached individually or (preferably)
if I can just send them all pasted into a word
document (because Yahoo only allows 3 attachments at a
time and this method would save time)

I checked out www.userfriendly.org, a regularly
updated comic strip taking the title as a good sign,
but frankly I couldn't find any that were relevant or
even funny.  ;)

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Great Dilbert strip regarding budgeting for usability
(this link will only be available for about a month)
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20020511.html

Penny Arcade regarding gratuitous use of Shockwave
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-03-03&res=l

Broken by Design, regarding gratuitous use of Flash
this time
http://www.macgregor.net/speaking/aip/images/comic.gif

I love this one: What if making a tire swing was like
making a website?
http://www.uoregon.edu/~ftepfer/SchlFacilities/TireSwingTable.html

Sluggy is one of my favorite online comic strips and I
think this first strip is hilarious.
http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=970825

Not really comics but good illustrations
www.humanfactors.com/downloads/guistandards.pdf
www.humanfactors.com/downloads/webstandards.pdf

A bit crass but I found these pretty funny.
http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity896.html

http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity906.html



Perusing a “for Dummies” book has been suggested and
this sounds like a viable option since I know they do
feature some panels.


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-miyon


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