IA Task Failures Remain Costly

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for April 16 is now online at:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ia-failures.html

Summary:
Task success is up substantially compared with usability statistics from
2004. Bad information architecture causes most of the remaining user
failures.
	
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