Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
People who subscribe to Jakob Nielsen's newsletter are *not* normal.
We're not?
Gosh, I didn't know that... :-)
They are people who show interest in Usability, people who have got
an above average understanding of Website Structure and Web
Standards.
Sounds good -- especially if one is to create *usable* web sites.
I am not saying these problems don't exist - of course they do. But I
can guarantee you the public (our real users) would vote completely
different on what bugs them about website usability than what
subscribers to Jakob Nielsen newsletter do.
Real users have a tendency to either 'like what they get', 'adjust to
what they get' or 'quit using a particular site'.
Result: we may have lost some users before any voting can take place,
and end up with a skewed set of votes.
Guess <http://www.useit.com/> experience some of that too...
Just shows how much value you can put into the content on useit.com.
Which is quite a lot if you don't read it in isolation, really...
Georg
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