Das experiment

When someone returns from a foreign usability test candy is brought to fill the UCD cookie jar. It has become the custom to try and bring some weird excotic sweets.

[ which sometimes turn out to be too excotic... ]



This time we got exciting red candy from Sweden. When the bag was opened, an extreme sweet scent spread thoroughout the office: The sweets tasted like incredible sweet chewing gum.

[ but without the chewing part and even sweetererer... ]

Not nice: so they went to the coffee corner...

We donated the candy to the general purpose coffee corner, so everyone could enjoy it.



It is always an interesting experiment to place candy in the coffee corner. You'd expect that anyone who tries one, will think twice before taking another. But if I divide the number of employees on our floor by the number of disappeared sweets, I have to conclude that someone must actually like them...

[ or that we have hungry gnomes running around in the office... ]