Nov 07 2007
What’s new in web usability and design
Big shots and other capitalists don’t feel that a poor sysadmin has enough responsibilities in his life. In addition to managing systems, servers, open source software, cleaning spam from e-mails, they also want a sysadmin to manage, program, design their web sites. The average sysadmin Joe works his ass off, while still being underpaid. But this is life, what can I say?
Speaking of Web, I always enjoyed reading Jacob Nielsen articles about web usability. I can’t say that I agree with everything he says. Yet, I must admit, that sometimes obvious things escape our attention and crawl into our web pages. Then, these flaws get piled up, and one day, we have to drop everything and sacrifice our precious time to adjust the sites accordingly. Trust me, in our web analytics company, we encounter that kind of situation from time to time. If only we had listened to old Jacob (sigh!)…
So, I highly value and recommend to go through useit.com that Jacob Nielsen still supports for free, although he could charge big bucks for it. You will learn what is so important today in the terms of web usability, and, hopefully, you will pass this learning curve to others.