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!
Thanks for the kind words, Tyler!
Hi Tyner, we in NetLife Research are gathering ideas for next years calendar at our blog. Feel free to help us with ideas for the Bad Usability Calendar :)
We’ve just published the 2007 version of the Bad Usability Calendar – you can get it at http://www.iallenkelhet.no/bad-usability-calendar-2007-is-here
Thanks Thor – I love it. Thanks for telling us about it!
Free pdf download for folks who might be hesitant to check it out.
Scott
The 2008 version of the Bad Usability Calendar is available over at http://www.badusability.com – get your copy while the year is still fresh :)