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  2. User Friendly - Wikipedia

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    Genre (s) technology and geek humor. User Friendly was a webcomic written by J. D. Frazer, also known by his pen name Illiad. Starting in 1997, the strip was one of the earliest webcomics to make its creator a living. The comic is set in a fictional internet service provider and draws humor from dealing with clueless users and geeky subjects.

  3. Short story - Wikipedia

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    Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...

  4. Interactive storytelling - Wikipedia

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    Interactive storytelling. Interactive storytelling (also known as interactive drama) is a form of digital entertainment in which the storyline is not predetermined. The author creates the setting, characters, and situation which the narrative must address, but the user (also reader or player) experiences a unique story based on their ...

  5. User story - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In software development and product management, a user story is an informal, natural language description of features of a software system. They are written from the perspective of an end user or user of a system, and may be recorded on index cards, Post-it notes, or digitally in specific management software. [1]

  6. The Landlady (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Plot. Billy Weaver is a seventeen-year-old youth who has travelled by train from London to Bath to start a new job. Looking for lodgings, he comes across a boarding-house and feels strangely compelled by its sign saying "Bed and Breakfast". Through the window, he notices a parrot in a cage and a sleeping dachshund on the floor.

  7. Usability - Wikipedia

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    In the user-driven or participatory design paradigm, some of the users become actual or de facto members of the design team. The term user friendly is often used as a synonym for usable, though it may also refer to accessibility. Usability describes the quality of user experience across websites, software, products, and environments.

  8. Graphical user interface - Wikipedia

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    A graphical user interface, or GUI ( / ˈɡuːi / [1] [2] GOO-ee ), is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation. In many applications, GUIs are used instead of text-based UIs, which are based on typed command labels or text navigation.

  9. User Friendly (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    User Friendly may also refer to: Usability, the ease of using a given object. User Friendly (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse. User Friendly, a short story collection by Spider Robinson. "User Friendly", a song by Marilyn Manson on the album Mechanical Animals. "User-Friendly", a song by Ian Anderson on the album Walk into Light.