A slow day in the world of computer usability reporting

Usability in the Movies — Top 10 Bloopers Jakob Nielsens Alertbox

Obviously a slow day in the world of Usability. This has got to be one of those posts that Jakob had stored just in case he had nothing to say one day.

But it’s amusing, it’s movie related, and it’s a topic that geeks go on and on about amongst themselves, so I was, of course, interested to read it.

The one I can’t believe that he didn’t mention as an example of amazing interoperability is the scene in Independence Day where Jeff Goldblum negotiates a connection with and delivers a virus to an alien spaceship. Even if you get past the connection bit (and as he says, how easy is it to even get PCs and Macs to speak to each other), what are the odds that the aliens are running an operating system – or even a single application – that will be affected by a virus written for Windows or the Mac OS?

You could probably write a full book about these kinds of “bloopers”. Fun stuff, if you’re a geek.

[tags]geek fun, movies, bloopers, computers, usability, Jakob Nielsen[/tags]

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