Brent Eades wrote:
> Speaking of Jakob Nielsen, his latest Alertbox is quite good. Entitled "The
> Web Usage Paradox: Why Do People Use Something This Bad?", it's a kind
> of Emperor's New Clothes look at the Web -- it spells out what many of us
> suspect deep down, that 90% of Web sites (literally) are pretty much a
> waste of everyone's time and money. One particular zinger of a quote:
[snip] *chuckle* I remember when Nielsen leaned more toward useability
for useablity's sake . . . that latest column tends to assume we all
actually use the web to visit corporate sites.
I, for one, "use" the web to waste time, conduct research, get news when
I miss it on TV, send email, etc. It's very convenient that all of
those nice corporations moved onto the web and let me order things when
I want to . . . but I don't log in just to visit their sites, no matter
how good they are.
Lately, I've also noticed another thing (largely from being around a new
staff). Even when you design something "right", and it benefits people
from good design, they often *still* don't realize that it is designed
"right". They use it in their own idiosyncratic way, and complain that
it still doesn't match the way they use it.
> P.S. Koes, it just occurred to me that your country code, 'be', matches
> my initials; if I were to register the domain 'be' in Belgium, could I have the
> e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED]?? How very existential... :)
Be, Inc. might complain ;) Your initials are trademarked now
*chuckle*
Always thought let.it.be would be a great belgium domain name, myself .
. .
B
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