Usability - Empiricism or Ideology?

[email protected] (Jakob Nielsen) Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:00:00 -0700

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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for June 27 is now online at:
   http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050627.html

Summary:
Usability's job is to research user behavior and find out what works.
Usability should also defend users' rights and fight for simplicity. Both
aspects have their place, and it's important to recognize the difference.

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Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2005

I am going to try something different this year and call for a vote: what
design mistakes do *you* think are worthy of getting on the next top-10
list?

You can nominate design mistakes in two categories:
   a) Top mistakes made by traditional websites
   b) Top mistakes made by weblogs

Please email your comments no later than July 15 to:
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Call for Entries: Year's 10 Best Intranets

Think you have a good intranet?
Enter it for this year's design competition. More info:

   > http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/2006

Deadline: August 22

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