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...does User Interface:
Four, three-panel Dilbert cartoons; First -- Dilbert is sitting at computer, co-worker Alice is standing behind. 'I designed the user interface myself. How do you like the colors?' Next frame -- PUKE! as Alice hurls. Last frame -- unseen person asks her, 'Flu?' she answers 'Interface design.' Next cartoon has Alice sitting on an exam table, with the doctor who says, 'You have chronic Mahjobbis Crappus' but that's not why you puked. Next panel, 'Have you been exposed to any user interfaces designed by engineers?' to which she says 'Yes.' The doctor then says, 'You have interface poisening. You'll be dead in a week.' Third cartoon -- Alice is standing in the street complaining to the trash guy, 'I have one week to live. I've been poisoned by looking at a bad user interface design.' Next panel: He says, 'I see a lot of this. The only cure is to crowd out the ugly memory with images of staggering beauty.' Next panel, 'Where would I...' and he says 'Drink it in, baby. And don't forget it.' while holding out his arms to reveal himself. Last cartoon, panel one -- Dilbert is presenting a PowerPoint and saying, 'We can fix our incomprehensible user interface for a million dollars.' Next panel, 'or we can close our eyes and wish real hard that our users won't care.' Slide is showing a user gritting his teeth, making fists, with spots in front of his eyes. Last panel -- pointy-hair boss is on the left, gritting his teeth, making fists, with spots in front of his eyes. Wally is saying to female co-worker and pointing at the boss, 'He's saving a million dollars, what did you do today?'
Dilbert tells the boss, 'Customers can't figure out our user interface.' Boss says, 'they should read the manual.' Dilbert says, 'Our manual is more confusing than our user interface.' 'They can use our online support database.' 'That's more confusing than our manual' 'We have no money to fix any of that. In situations like this, I like to go to my special place. Someday I hope to have a special place that's big enough for my entire body. (Boss inserts his head in a huge hole in the floor) Problem solved.'
Dilbert is thinking, 'The world's greatest engineer prepares to do battle with the world's worst user interface.' Then, many, many clicks coming from his cubicle. 'I hope that did something' thinks Dilbert. The computer says, 'Your social security number has been sold.'
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