XKCD Cartoon - and Poor User Experience on University Websites

[tedster]

I'm a fan of XKCD. When cartoonist Randall Monroe skewers a topic well, no one does it better.

His new cartoon lacerates the "University Website" home page and lack of functionality. Having been involved recently with trying to talk sense to a web dev team at "Nameless University". Check it out - it may make you groan with recognition, too.

[xkcd.com...]

[Staffa]

Thanks for mentioning this site, it's new to me and I like this kind of humor so I bookmarked it ;)

[rocknbil]

LOL . . . I don't think we need to name only one, most of them are like this . . .

Edit: to test, I punched in a local university here . . . Guilty as charged! haha . . . .

[tedster]

If you want to see Randall on video, his talk at Google is quite amusing:

[youtube.com...]

And this cartoon is one my favorites. "If a quantum physicist doesn't observe Christmas, then it can't have a definite date."

[xkcd.com...]

[phranque]

and note that you haven't seen all of randall's work until you have read the title attribute [w3.org]:

...the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it.