The bad usability calendar is one of my favorite forms of communicating usability principles. The calendar is made by Norwegian based Netlife Research, but has this year moved on to it’s own flashy web 2.0-looking website: www.badusability.com. Here you can also find back issues of the bad usability calendar. Go have fun.

Apart from being incredibly funny (gotta love the June reference to Jacob Nielsen), this is also a fantastic piece of link bait and viral marketing. The ‘I’ll pass this on’-rate is going to be close to 100% between information architects and usability professionals. Also, the website has a call to action to translate the calendar – translations are probably credited on the page, and will boost the penetration speed of the bad usability calendar to equal Facebook for a while…

Oh, and while we’re at funny visualization of online concepts – Information Architects Japan have announced the 3rd edition of their Web Trend Map – looking forward to that too.

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