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I agree with the article (and always have done), but it's always bothered me that useit.com is a website devoted to usability and it looks like this... http://
by tomelders 15y ago
I agree with the article (and always have done), but it's always bothered me that useit.com is a website devoted to usability and it looks like this...
http://www.useit.com/ http://www.useit.com/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
- lurker19 15y agoUse It is widely regarded as Spartan and perhaps ugly, but it is eminently usable. I bet most readers get in and out with more recall of key appreciated content in less time than the ever-so-popular "5 wordpress plugins to make your site shiny" style of bloggers. And I bet Jakob N has 1tested this question extensively as well. Oh and on his home page I stumbled on a link to a page with his own (better) explanation: http://www.useit.com/about/nographics.html http://www.useit.com/about/nographics.html
- tomelders 15y agoIt's not the lack of graphics that I find unwieldy, it's the fact that the content seems dumped onto the page with only a cursory thought towards hierarchy. I look at it and see an impenetrable wall of content, which I personally find difficult to sift through.