Jakob Nielson’s latest Alertbox is the longest-read enewsletter in my list. In the latest Alertbox, he points out “designers can get so caught up in their own theories about how users ought to behave that they forget to test for cases in which people behave differently” Could it be that the mechanics of setting up multivariate testing neutralizes this “worry”? Should variable definition be more of a part of the web design process?
I rarely post in my blog just because someone else posted something in theirs, or because of a great new newsletter entry, but this has to be an exception – it hit home so well. Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox, titled “The Myth of the Genius Designer” nailed it
I received probably the worst designed informational postcard ever in the mail today. Here it is, with a small suggested revision.
I multi-task a bit too much for the new animated avatars and their little digital timers. They are left wondering why I haven’t clicked on them in the past “x” seconds and start their banter “I can’t help but notice that you’ve not clicked on anything yet.” says the guy from the UPS Whiteboard site.Â…
Allume System gets It – When you want off of an email list, you just want the he** off. Allume makes great software but I’m getting too much email. So I decided to unsubscribe from their announcements. To my delight, they didn’t require me to do much. They just gave me a button. Click. I’m…
One of the companies I admire most, Adobe, let me down today. Do you guys ever really “use” the updates you send out? Have you considered that we’re not all sitting in little cubies in Mountain View when we do our updates? In a standard security update for Acrobat Standard 6.0, you get stuck in…