Jakob Nielsen Knows Bad Design
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I think Jakob Nielsen has very good points, concerning usability. They're very hard to argue with, because they make sense.
The man, however, does not claim to be a design artist, and he has stated that he "can't afford to hire an artist" to design his personal site http://useit.com. This design hasn't changed much the last decade, but that's not the same as him arguing that ALL web sites must be that minimalistic (outdated, like his hairdo).
Great design can be coupled with thorough crafting of content and meaningful means of navigating etc. And so it should. :)
Jakob Nielsen is right in his observation anyway -- these are a bunch of bad designs. As long as things don't improve, I don't see anything wrong with stating the same point by using up-to-date examples.