Holiday Usability Tips

Holiday Usability Tips:
1. Use a “one-click” switch for all your holiday lights.
2. Gifts should be no more than two layers deep from the  wrapping paper.
3. • Make your greeting cards shorter, • highlight key words in bold, and • use bulleted lists.
4. If writing a long letter, don’t use a roll of parchment (Don’t make Santa scroll.)
5.  Label stockings clearly, and sort them by size. Provide a naughty/nice filter.
6. Remember to include a call to action in holiday cards, such as “Have a great holiday!”
7. Keep the menorah down to 5-7 candles, to fit the user’s short-term memory capacity.
8. Offer an automated mass-email of goodwill to all mankind.
9. Color-code fun things in red, happy things in green.
10. When in doubt, just copy Apple.

1. Use a “one-click” switch for all your holiday lights.

2. Gifts should be no more than two layers deep from the wrapping paper.

3. • Make your greeting cards shorter, • highlight key words in bold, and • use bulleted lists.

4. If writing a long letter, don’t use a roll of parchment (Don’t make Santa scroll.)

5.  Label stockings clearly, and sort them by size. Provide a naughty/nice filter.

6. Remember to include a call to action in holiday cards, such as “Have a great holiday!”

7. Keep the menorah down to 5-7 candles, to fit the user’s short-term memory capacity.

8. Offer an automated mass-email of goodwill to all mankind.

9. Color-code fun things in red, happy things in green.

10. When in doubt, just copy Apple.

Top ten things most likely to be said by a Buddhist programmer

  1. Coding is suffering.
  2. Suffering is embodied in the endless wheel of the product life-cycle.
  3. You cannot escape the wheel of the product life-cycle, because your mind is clouded by desire for a better framework.
  4. Users cannot escape the wheel of the product life-cycle, because their minds are clouded by desire for features.
  5. To be free of suffering, one must first understand boolean non-duality: The bit is not one, and the bit is not not-one. 
  6. The spec is forever like sand between your fingers. Yet each grain of it is a precious gift, inviting you to develop compassion for designers and managers.
  7. Debugging is negative, and unnecessary. Bugs are precious gifts, inviting the QA team and the users to develop compassion for programmers.
  8. It’s fun to set an array of flags, and let them flap like prayers in the wind. 
  9. If you comment your code, it will bring good karma to you in your next release.
  10. To reach enlightenment, pipe your mental I/O to /dev/null