* Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-04 11:25]:
> Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
>
> > Somebody pointed out this article by our friend Jakob Nielsen to me:
>
> > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html
>
> > Let's start with this little comment at the beginning:
>
> > "For this year's list of worst design mistakes, I decided to try something
> > new: I asked readers of my newsletter to nominate the usability problems
> > they found the most irritating."
>
> > How useless is that?! People who subscribe to Jakob Nielsen's newsletter are
> > *not* normal. They are people who show interest in Usability, people who
> > have got an above average understanding of Website Structure and Web
> > Standards.
>
> It's only too bad most web site designers are apparently not among them.
> We wouldn't actually want most of the web to be easy to use, would we?
I'm a programmer. I like UI concepts, and I want my software to
be usable, but I'm a programmer and very comfortable with vi.
Which is why I like programming for the web. There is a large
and vocal usability community setting down guidelines, sharing
the results of their usability testing, having major spats about
seemingly little issues like text size.
Can a Visual Basic programmer go to a listserv and say, please
give me feedback on my design?
It's unusual to have a platform where design, usability, and
systems have and ongoing dialog. I make it a point to listen.
--
Alan Gutierrez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://engrm.com/blogometer/
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