Quite a hilarious and true observation about the state of portrayals of computer UI’s in the movies.

5. Access Denied / Access Granted
Countless scenes involve unauthorized access to some system. Invariably, several passwords are tried, resulting in a giant “Access Denied” dialog box. Finally, a few seconds before disaster strikes, the hero enters the correct password and is greeted by an equally huge “Access Granted” dialog box.

A better user interface would proceed directly to the application’s home screen as soon as the user has correctly logged in. After all, you design for authorized users. There’s no reason to delay them with a special confirmation that yes, they did indeed enter their own passwords correctly.

Although intended as a serious article I can see where the authors coming from and find the humor in it, as it’s all true. You can read the list by clicking here.

We all know the drill.. guy leaves for holiday/other reason, people do stuff, guy returns and is shocked.. this is one of the better ones I’ve seen this year, that’s certainly something! See all of the images and the guys blog post here.

That’s right. My team and I tin foiled a fellow designer’s cubicle. So here’s the background: a fellow designer left for vacation this past week. He intends to return the Tuesday after Christmas. What he doesn’t even know yet is that my boss, fellow designer and myself used over 500 square feet of tin foil and wrapped up EVERYTHING in his cube!

Absolutely hilarious.. I love playing these sorts of sandbox style games and just doing stupid things in them, though some will claim RCT is an economic simulation or something, I still call it Sandboxing for what I use it for bwahaha ^_^

Truly the most disturbing thing I’ve found today. Absolutely hilarious though, I wish I had of done this when I used to sell.. but if I end up getting back into eBay selling you know I’m so stealing this idea.

You can read all of their feedback left for others here. What’s up with all the becky’s though?!