Compete on Usability

Easy button goes too far

Just a humor post related to an online comic someone sent me today.

The webcomic is Office Online by David Salaguinto.

The pieceless puzzle

Wouldn't it be great to have a jigsaw puzzle that cleans up easily? What if you never had to worry about losing a piece?

Introducing the world's most usable jigsaw puzzle, the Pieceless Puzzle.  All the "pieces" are connected.  Pictured is the puzzle shaken out into formlessness.  In this mode it looks like a mass of dried, cooked spaghetti.  If you assemble it, though, it looks just like a completed jigsaw puzzle.

The video doesn't mention this, but I assume that by connecting all the puzzle pieces, they have reduced the difficulty of completing the puzzle somewhat.  But hey, no chance of losing a piece!

Microsoft oPhone

Take a break and view this spoof on Microsoft and its imagined response to the Apple iPhone. I particularly enjoyed the wild-eyed interaction designer and his demo of the boomerang feature.