Jason Turnbull wrote:
Terrence Wood wrote:
Jakob Nielsen responded to my request for clarification
Jacob has used this request for his latest article
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/within_page_links.html
Regards
Jason
Ignoring the discussion of in-page links and jumping straight
Geoff Pack wrote:
If the users don't understand a particular feature of the web, one
that's been around since its very beginning, then they (damn well)
should feel insecure in their mastery. They are not masters (yet). If
we don't confuse the users occaissionly, how will they ever learn
that
This is really interesting article in that it contradicts findings of a
recent study we completed just 2 weeks ago.
We recently conducted user testing on a site with 22 participants, which is
a significant sample (often we test with 8 to 12).
The demographic was 18 skilled workers and 4
Herrod, Lisa wrote:
This is really interesting article in that it contradicts findings of a
recent study we completed just 2 weeks ago.
We recently conducted user testing on a site with 22 participants, which is
a significant sample (often we test with 8 to 12).
The demographic was 18 skilled
users, just wanted to clarify that point.
Anyway, I'll leave it at that. All this talking is giving me a hoarse
throat...
-Original Message-
From: Mike Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 22 February 2006 1:28 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Confusing
] Confusing the users... In Page Links
Herrod, Lisa wrote:
This is really interesting article in that it contradicts findings of a
recent study we completed just 2 weeks ago.
We recently conducted user testing on a site with 22 participants, which is
a significant sample (often we test with 8
Or do we just dumb everything down until we have some small subset that
everyone understands?
I've often found the Nielsen goes too far - beyond make it more
usable, through to make it more stupid or even cater to such a low
common denominator that average users actually start to get
Jason Turnbull:
Terrence Wood wrote:
Jakob Nielsen responded to my request for clarification
Jacob has used this request for his latest article
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/within_page_links.html
Wow! there's my 15 seconds of fame. If he'd mentioned me by name I'd be
immortal! The other
