UX cartoons
I hope you enjoy these cartoons as much as I enjoyed making them. You are welcome to use these cartoons freely as long as you mention the creator’s name (Satu Kyröläinen) or Twitter-handle (@satukyro) with them.
User experience cartoons 2023
The freshest cartoons of them all!
- Usability Boosts Wellbeing (March 2023)
- Thoughts and Prayers (February 2023)
- Don’t forget user research results (January 2023)
User experience cartoons 2022
- AI-Powered Calorie Tracker (October 2022)
- Boxes and arrows (September 2022)
User experience cartoons 2021
- If people behaved like bad UIs – part 6 (November 2021)
- Too easy to use (September 2021)
- Emotional Design (April 2021)
- Life of a usability consultant (March 2021)
- Helping designer in need (March 2021)
User experience cartoons 2020
- If people behaved like bad UI – part 5 (December 2020)
- Generating ideas (October 2020)
- Accessibility issues (September 2020)
- Design process by the book vs in real life (September 2020)
- Design vs implementation (September 2020)
User experience cartoons 2019
- Usability testing feels like Christmas (October 2019)
- Fatal error (April 2019)
- Users are not designers (January 2019)
- You might not know thy users (January 2019)
- UX principles vs hunches (January 2019)
User experience cartoons 2018
My workplace Solidabis kept growing and work piled up, but still I managed to make at least a few cartoons.
- Prioritization (September 2018)
- User experience design and service design (August 2018)
- Accessibility (June 2018)
- Designer crisis (June 2018)
- Artificial intelligence vs artificial stupidity (June 2018)
- Design in the dark (April 2018)
- User interface design (April 2018)
- User data to back it up (February 2018)
User experience cartoons 2017
In 2017 I started working in service design and software development company called Solidabis as Fyyri merged with it. Lucky for me these cartoons remained as part of the company’s communication material, so I kept creating more :-)
- Digital Service Designer (December, 2017)
- Human work and robot work (November, 2017)
- Unemployed robot (November, 2017)
- More usability, less training (November 2017)
- Opinions vs user research (October 2017)
- Mom’s work (October 2017)
- Chatbots (October 2017)
- Big picture (September 2017)
- Readability / Luettavuus (August 2017, in Finnish)
- It’s not you, it’s the software (May 2017)
- Don’t skip the design documentation (May 2017)
- Don’t skip the design (May 2017)
- Costs (April 2017)
- Selling usability (Februry 2017)
- Usability as only selling point (January 2017)
User experience cartoons 2016
In 2016 in Fyyri I was getting more kicks out of UX work than ever…
- Looking through user’s eyes (December 2016)
- If people behaved like bad UIs -part 4 (December 2016)
- If people behaved like bad UIs -part 3 (December 2016)
- What UX expert knows (November 2016)
- Remote usability test challenges (September 2016)
- How to put yourself into user’s shoes (August 2016)
- Usability vs usefulness (June 2016)
- Usability tests: actions, not opinions (May 2016)
- The curse of knowledge (April 2016)
- The shared joy of user research (April 2016)
- April fools (April 2016)
- Usability and wellbeing at work – part1 (March 2016)
- Usability and wellbeing at work – part2 (March 2016)
- UX design work explained – 3 simple steps (February 2016)
- Starting a design project (February 2016)
- Presenting UX evaluation results (February 2016)
- User researcher experience (January 2016)
- UX Designer’s tool (January 2016)
User experience cartoons 2015
In 2015 I continued working in UX consultancy Fyyri, where more crazy senior UX designers joined the fun…
- Usability of umbrellas (December 2015)
- If people behaved like bad UIs – part 2 (November 2015)
- If people behaved like bad UIs – part 1 (November 2015)
- Senior UX Designers (October 2015)
- 3 Traits Every UX Designer Should Have (September 2015)
- UX designers’ sixth sense (September 2015)
- UX researcher at work (May 2015)
- What they say vs what they do (March 2015)
- Designing user experience (February 2015)
User experience cartoons 2014
In 2014 I started working in UX consultancy company called Fyyri, and was reminded of the ups and downs of UX work…
- No money to meet user needs (September 2014)
- Project solving the right problems (August 2014)
- Project doing something (August 2014)
- Modern Pavlov’s dog (March 2014)
- UX-maker’s children (February 2014)
- UX Unicorn (January 2014)
User experience cartoons 2013
Most of 2013 I was looking for new UX work. I had plenty of time to both cartoons and blogging…
- Usability means they care (November 2013)
- Likable software (November 2013)
- Work-hungry usability expert (October 2013)
- Usability people in a restroom (September 2013)
- Site’s okay you’re okay (August 2013)
- To buy online or not to buy online (August 2013)
- How user’s mind works (August 2013)
- The things you can do with your smart phone (April 2013)
- Research gone to waste (January 2013)
User experience cartoons 2012 and 2011
Up until 2012 I was working in Nokia. Lots of good times, learned a lot! On a side note, 2012 was also the year when I created the “Frustrated UX -people” -Facebook group. You’re welcome to join, whether or not you’re frustrated ;-).
- Understanding user needs (October 2012)
- Self-appearing user experience (May 2012)
- Assumed user needs (May 2012)
- Surveys (April 2012)
- Expert evaluation (April 2012)
- Usability testing (April 2012)
- Peer review (April 2012)
- Testing & usability defects (April 2012)
- Biz vs. user needs (March 2012)
- User-centered vs user-scented design (January 2012)
- Speed is indeed the key to success (October 2011)
- Excel experience (June 2011)
That’s all.
