I found a great article the other day written by a web design firm based in Australia titled “If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers!”

With irony and humour it illustrates some of the difficulties us designers can have with project definition. Here’s the first few line few lines:

“Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted.”

Well worth a read, read the full article here.

And here is a list of some of the tricks that have been played on unsuspecting surfers:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wiihelm.shtml

http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/01/one-man-gives-away-all-possessions-moves-to-alaska/

http://www.contextweb.com/aboutus/news-releases/slooflirpa.html

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

Have a look at this classic clip from the 80s that shows the “Hi-tech” Commodore Amiga in action! It uses the all new “WIMP” (Windows,Images, Mouse and Pull-down menus) Looks a bit like early versions of windows.

Since its friday I thought I would share a funny website with you that will make you laugh. I once had a student that when I told her to “right click” on her computer she began to actually type “C-L-I-C-K”. This site has some even funnier examples:

Customer: “Email! I won’t have anything to do with that Internet or modems of any sort! You should be careful about those. Don’t you know that once you install a modem, the government can look into your computer and watch everything you do? That’s why every night before I go to bed, I turn the monitor to the wall.”

And…

Customer: “I’ve been connected to the Internet for about ten minutes now, and my computer started smoking about five minutes ago. Is your building on fire?”

Have a look at the other funny quotes on http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/