Usability Joke
From Szuc & Gaffney:
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They’re too busy complaining about the door knob.
Can you do better?
From Szuc & Gaffney:
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They’re too busy complaining about the door knob.
Can you do better?
January 31st, 2006 at 4:33 am
LOL, thats great;)
January 31st, 2006 at 4:45 am
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January 31st, 2006 at 8:21 am
That describes me! Just recently I was too busy complaining about the poor time-setting interface on my answering machine to just think. I was complaining that the arrows for skip/rewind or volume up/down should have been used instead of the less efficient single “Change” button since it could only go forward and you had to cycle all the way through all the settings. It may have been inefficient and non-intuitive, but at least the thing was labeled well!
January 31st, 2006 at 8:58 am
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: How many would you expect?
January 31st, 2006 at 9:32 am
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They only make recommendations about how you should change the light bulb.
January 31st, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: It Depends.
January 31st, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Four and a random third person. One to complain about the bulb, one to complain about the light-holder, one to complain about the way the bulb has to be changed and one to write a note stating how the next person entering the room should change the light-holder, which bulb to use and how it should be done.
January 31st, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Maybe if we go in as a group, we can get the discounted rate of $279 and download the PDF of Jakob Nielsen’s report on light bulbs. I don’t think we should do anything until then.
January 31st, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. We’ve never needed them before and things have turned out ok.
January 31st, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Very, very good … LOL!
February 1st, 2006 at 8:57 am
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. If you change the bulb or they’ll see through the mirror…
February 1st, 2006 at 11:07 am
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Usability? Can someone define that please?
February 1st, 2006 at 11:12 am
My variation on Chris Tubb’s joke:
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Null result. They keep smacking into the one way mirror like birds.
I have this vision in my mind that looks very much like one of Gary Larson’s Far Side one panel comics. Smack!
February 2nd, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Having even one usability person change the light bulb would be better than remaining completely in the dark.
February 2nd, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Are we asking the right question here? Let’s revisit the assumption that light is desirable.
February 2nd, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Well, it just happens that we’re giving a one-day workshop on just this topic with some of the world’s most renowned experts in usable light bulb changing…
February 3rd, 2006 at 10:39 am
[…] The first usability joke was quite popular. Let’s give it another try! […]
February 4th, 2006 at 4:58 am
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: It will never happen, because no one would dare change the bulb when the light switch is in an indeterminate state.
February 7th, 2006 at 1:08 am
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: To change the light bulb this late in the development process is too expensive. If we’d only known we needed to change it, we would’ve done it much earlier. Maybe for the next release.
February 14th, 2006 at 5:20 am
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. It’s been replaced with a skylight.
February 16th, 2006 at 4:48 am
Usability light bulb jokes
John Rhodes of Webword found this fantastic lightbulb joke from Szuc & Gaffney:
Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They’re too busy complaining about the door knob.
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December 13th, 2006 at 6:40 am
That was funny and comments were even funnier but seriously there are people like that. So much so it is not finny but sad and irritating.
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January 16th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I remember seeing blogs talking a lot about this Top 100 UX Blogs although the credibility of the person/company making the list was a little bit obscure.
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 am
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Q: How many usability people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Four and a random third person. One to complain about the bulb, one to complain about the light-holder, one to complain about the way the bulb has to be changed and one to write a not…