If you’re in the IT-business – especially anything web-related – and you have a few years under your belt dealing with projects, requirements, IT-staff, customers etc., you get to a point where you probably have many anecdotes for just about every situation: Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. Still, it is nice to see there are websites around that succeed in touching things that matter in our profession (wether you’re a designer, projectmanager, programmer etc.) AND are funny at the same time. Today I came across a prime example of this: Ok/cancel. I feel I would do my readers a bad service by not pointing this website out. So, thats why I just did 🙂 In their own words:
About OK/Cancel
OK/Cancel is a comic strip collaboration co-written and co-illustrated by Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi. Our subject matter focuses on interfaces, good and bad and the people behind the industry of building interfaces – usability specialists, interaction designers, human-computer interaction (HCI) experts, industrial designers, etc.
Most people can relate to things in the world which don’t work like they should. From your car’s dashboard to the web pages you visit, you needn’t be an expert to appreciate the frustrations – but experts do exist to try and make things easier. If you wish to learn more about the field, we encourage you to visit the HCI Bibliography or other sites in our resources.
OK/Cancel is completely developed through virtual collaboration as Tom and Kevin reside sixteen time zones apart from each other. For full details on how OK/Cancel is created, check out The Making of OK/Cancel.
Go ahead and have a look: I promise you you will see that they have excellent subjects and – really – funny cartoons!