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Jakob Nielsen Interview on Web Site Redesigns
securitas writes "CIO Insight's executive editor Brad Wieners interviews Web site design usability evangelist Jakob Nielsen about design mistakes like poor search, discusses organizational resistance and common barriers to doing usability reviews, concluding with Nielsen's Adobe PDF and pop-up pet peeves, common redesign errors and budget advice when it's time for a redesign, either for your Web site or company intranet. And just to make it more usable and readable (so you don't have to click through multiple pages), you can read the entire Jakob Nielsen interview on one printer-friendly page with fewer graphics and a bandwidth-saving document size for people using dial-up Internet connections. You might also like to read a previous Ask Slashdot from March 2000 and Jakob Nielsen's answers to those questions."
I can't see the menu; I think they must think I'm at 1024x768. The menu is on the right anyway. Why? What is the point of having the menu on the right? Everybody has the menu on the left. Putting the main menu on the right is pure artistic masturbation.
The "team" then proceed to take the piss out of Jakob's writing style, redesign a quick reference so you need to turn it over and suggest adding Flash because it's 'sexy'.
Oh yes, they certainly know their stuff.
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