Jakob Nielsen Knows Bad Design
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- olli101
and he can prove it:
- jevad0
I don't know what bothers me more...that the fat annoying fuck is still harping on about it...or that in this article I actually agree with everything he says....
- Llyod0
has anyone ever seen a jakob nielsen revamped website?
- yeah, looks the same as sites did in 1990flashbender
- so does his haircutkona
- nah really, any examples?Llyod
- yeah, seriously:
http://www.useit.com…flashbender - or http://www.nngroup.c…flashbender
- robotron3k0
He's got so many fortune 500 companies screwed into believing someone will actually visit a website because it's got 14pt text and 16pt buttons. The real truth is people turn away from website that are ugly like this one for example... http://www.useit.com/
- ukit0
Nielsen's core ideas are pretty sound but he takes it too far - the idea that you would never use Flash or 3D navigation is ridiculous.
Also he is a pompous famewhore as these pictures indicate:
- emukid0
i am going to buy me some Christopher Norman Chocolates
- madirish0
i personally love the fact his corp's identity is set in a non-web safe typeface...
- creative-0
He makes me ANGRY
- tank020
this guy should understand this is different kinds of info and different kinds of websites...
he is a demagog of the worst kind.
and besides that he is butt ugly and man
cut that hair! a balding man with long hair is pathetic.
- airey0
he is worth listening to but only as another opinion. like anyone's it shouldn't be treated as the be-all.
personally i think he oversimplifies and reduces aesthetic value to almost zero. if we took a severe bare bones approach to design imagine how boring magazine/editorial work would look (and they are still just information trying to get through to an audience same as a web-site).
imagine pitching the 'design' of his site to a client. it couldn't be done. all the talk of usability and seo excellence wouldn't slow the client down as they headed for the door.
- doctor0
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changed much the last decade, but that's not the same as him arguing that ALL web sites must be that minimalistic (outdated, like his hairdo).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.
- ukit0
I would give Jesse James Garrett and 37 Signals more props than Nielsen in the usability dept at this point. True, you can never fail if you stick to the basics, but you can never succeed if you don't take chances and try new things.
- studderine0
he is alright. just take what he says about design with a grain of salt.
- Llyod0
he's a goddamn pig fucker
- jfletcher0
JN sticks with what works for him. He has essential rules that can be applied to design that can make it better, but he's too narrow minded on evolving computing technology. As Ukit said, it we don't task risks we won't evolve and people won't learn new things.
Sometimes people have to be a bit uncomfortable, but then they get comfortable...That being said, he's making money like a mad man, so I am jealous!
