Should You Copy a Famous Site's Design?

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for August 23 is now online at:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/copy-big-sites.html

Summary:
Although successful websites typically have high usability,
average sites can hurt their business by copying design elements
that don't work well in other contexts.
	
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Usability Week 2010 conference

  * San Francisco, CA: October 3-8
  * Copenhagen, Denmark: October 18-22
  * Edinburgh, Scotland: October 25-29
  * Las Vegas, NV: December 5-10

Full program:
  > http://www.nngroup.com/events

DEADLINE to save 10% on advance registration for San Francisco:
  * NEXT FRIDAY, September 3

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LAS VEGAS CONFERENCE

Announcing the biggest Usability Week ever – Las Vegas in December:

  > http://www.nngroup.com/events/las_vegas/agenda.html

This year we present 41 full-day seminars. This is 24% more than the 33
seminars offered at our 2009 Vegas event.

Several new topics:

Good Web design - case studies of sites that work well:
  > http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/web_design.html

How to conduct a design review:
  > http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/expert_reviews.html

Measuring usability:
  > http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/metrics.html

Content strategy (2-day seminar):
  > http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/content_strategy.html