Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for November 10 is now online at:
   http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20031110.html

Summary:
There are ten usability mistakes that about two-thirds of corporate
websites make. The prevalence of these errors alone warrants attention,
especially since they appear on sites with significant investment in
usable design.

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Film on VHS?

A few people have asked whether my new film on paper prototyping is
available on videotape. No. We went through a lot of trouble to film and
edit this production on the newest all-digital equipment and the
resulting video is very crisp when watched on DVD. I tried watching a
VHS copy, and it's a wretched experience: much lower quality image
and also lower quality sound.

DVD also has the advantage that it works world-wide, whereas there are
at least three different video standards for tape, making them much
more expensive to manufacture and carry in inventory.

If there's a big demand for videotape, we will make it available,
but I strongly encourage use of a DVD player if at all possible.

More info:

Paper Prototyping: A How-To Video (32 minute training video on DVD):

   http://www.nngroup.com/reports/prototyping