Durability of Usability Guidelines

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for January 17 is now online at:
   http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050117.html

Summary:
About 90% of usability guidelines from 1986 are still valid, though
several guidelines are less important because they relate to design
elements that are rarely used today.

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Usability Week 2005

   > New York City, April 18-23
   > Stockholm, Sweden, May 9-13
   > London, U.K., May 16-21
   > San Francisco, June 20-25

More info and full program:	
   http://www.nngroup.com/events

Announcing the speakers for the "Great Intranets" seminar:

   David Bailey, Orbis Technology
   Dale Bass, Wachovia 
   Ken Becker, Boeing
   Diane Crawford, U.S. Defense Finance and Accounting Service
   Helen de Rooij, Elsevier
   Gordon Ingram, Orbis Technology
   Andrew Melck, Fujitsu Siemens Computers
   Tracy Mitchell-Björkman, Government Offices of Sweden
   Luke Oatham, Transport for London
   Brad Ruffkess, FIGG Engineering Group

Topics to be covered include:
   > integrating hundreds of intranet sites with unified navigation
   > implementing design standards for 156,000 employees
   > workflow support in an intranet for a smaller company
   > making off-the-shelf portal tools support specialized business needs
   > world-wide intranets: cultural differences and multiple languages
   > wiki systems on intranets
   > analysis of server and search logs to improve intranet content

Descriptions of the intranet case studies:
   http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/greatintranets.html