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Web 2.0 Distracts from Good Design
stevedcc writes "The BBC is running a story about web 2.0 and usability, including comments from Jakob Nielsen stating "Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design".
From the article:
"He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served. Sites peppered with personalization tools were in danger of resembling the 'glossy but useless' sites at the height of the dotcom boom."
You mean I could no longer get a job with my pimped geocities/xoom/fortunecity skills?
Infiltrated dot Net
After all, web 2.0 helps me to design rich-client synergies, disintermediate semantic networking and, of course, let's not forget it can assist in syndicating standards-compliant widgets*. Try doing all that on your web 1.0, gramps!
Oh and whilst I know that mangling the English language has become an artform here on Slashdot, surely "Web 2.0 distracts good design" is bad even by our (admittedly low) standards.
* Courtesy of The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator.
Er, at the risk of sounding flamebaity, that's really nothing new—since when was Microsoft ever able to design anything usable?
and users.
Wow. I completely agree. I do admit that his site is useability is more important then design, but this is just horrible. You need to focus at least a little bit on design. Looks like he needs to update some of his content too. http://www.useit.com/about/nographics.html "and since most users have access speeds on the order of 28.8 kbps" Really???
Have gnu, will travel.