Bad Usability Calendar From Netlife Research

What a great way to demonstrate 12 key usability concepts – creating a calendar where each concept is demonstrated.  You’ve heard the saying – “If you can’t be a good example, be a horrible warning.”  Here is that saying manifested in calendar form.

The Calendar

A Brilliant presentation of the importance of usability.  Brilliant because it is fun, and the ideas are all extremely well executed.  Thanks to Netlife Research for this!  And a hat tip to Jesper at justaddwater.dk.  Netlife’s main site is in Norwegian, which will be a pleasent surprise for some of our readers.

The other twelve months of the calendar are available in a pdf (go to justaddwater.dk to get the download), and are really great.  My favorite ideas (cleverly done in calendar as examples of how not to do it):

• Give All Pages Suitable Titles and Subtitles
• Don’t let news and information take up too much space from the main focus
• Use a language the users understand

Genius.

Thanks, Jesper, and happy birthday – the one year mark is a big deal for a blog!  Jesper’s current “highest traffic post” is a roundup of 30 ajax tutorials.  Let’s see if we can push the bad usability calendar to the top of the list for year two of justaddwater.dk.  Go check it out!