Jakob Nielsen Hateration Time
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- Redmond
Bash Away!!!
- material-10
he lives in fremont
- e-pill0
any Jakob PSB pics??
- skt0
- Naygon0
Well done Skt, well done.
- Baskerville0
I don't know who that guy is, I read the first article about drop-down menus for enetering your country etc which I agreed with.
But for a site about useability, his site is almost impossbile to read due to it's extremely poor typography. Kind of hypocritcal I think.
He needs to realise that legibility is part of usability. Just apply some good CSS and it will be fine!
- Jaline0
That's why we make fun of him.
And because of his face.
- rafalski0
I remember I was once just about to make a Jakob joke in a conversation with a visiting overseas exec, when he pulled out a Nielsen book, asking if I had read it and recommending I ordered it.
- flavorful0
I can’t believe you never heard of him!!
Hahah, he has been like the bane of every designers existence since the dawn of browsers that could handle CSS and Styles, haha.
- Redmond0
Yes he does bring up many good points for usability. I'm a seek and destroy person when I'm using net service or looking up company info. I'm often frustrated when simple information such as locating an outlet is hard to find on a corporation's site.
It's just that is site looks like crap.
- e-pill0
i nevr heard of him til that psbattle...
where is the cum faced jakob?????? janne hook up tha pic!!!!!
- Jaline0
I never heard of him before I came to Newstoday. And now he's mentioned all the time.
- allterrain0
He has been around for ages and designers hate him- and he hates designers.
His site http://www.nngroup.com/
uses 1 graphic.
I recently had a client send me one of his "reports" to read concerning designing sites for senior citizens (126 page pdf). I am living through that hell right now...
- flavorful0
Does he have any clue whatsoever about how ridiculous a postal code lookup to a text field is?
Just imagine how many postal codes are in the US alone.
Please just imagine.
I am sure you know about 20 in the city you live alone off the top of your head, haha.
- Jaline0
that is ridiculous. and it's frustrating when yours is not listed because the site doesn't support Canada. Or Ottawa or something.
- flavorful0
Haha yea, he is definitely thinking local for sure.
At least Canada rocks the two letter province as well (our state... I guess... though you have a lot less, haha).
This is not a global solution in the least.
- allterrain0
To me, it's kind of like someone saying that they are the absolute guru of Cold Fusion. We've moved on...
- Bottlerocket0
He looks like bastard offspring of Belushi and Kelsey Grammer.
- rafalski0
Jakob is loved in corporations because he secures management's asses. When they don't know shit, they can always say "nielsen usability report says.." and pull out an overpriced pdf all companies subscribe to anyway.