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by harrylove 14y ago
Arts and Letters Daily http://www.aldaily.com/ http://www.aldaily.com/
Edward Tufte Forum http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1 http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1
- glhaynes 14y agoWhat is it about usability guys and their shitty, shitty websites? That Tufte page is a wall of red (and red underlined!) smashed together links. Just needs an Under Construction sign and a starfield background. [I'm certain the content is very good - I enjoy reading/listening to Tufte.] I remember reading an article from usability guru Donald Norman a few years ago, another person whom I respect and enjoy reading. His (awesome) article was all about how aesthetics matter and are a key part not just of being beautiful, but about being usable. I wrote him an email asking (nicely) why his webpage containing that article was so ugly and had such poor typography, then; he promptly wrote back saying that it'd take too much time to format it nicely when there's too much to do already. sigh
- harrylove 14y agoYou mean like this? http://www.useit.com/ http://www.useit.com/ I would make a distinction between designers and researchers in the field. The researchers and scholars, almost without fail, seem to care the least about their own website aesthetics.
- dredmorbius 14y agoNielsen's site may not be a thing of beauty, but 1) it works, 2) it's usable, and 3) it is unchanged in style from when it first appeared. How many sites can make the same claim: that they created a design and it has worked for 17 years of Web evolution? It's a tour de force of Neilsen's key message: usability is design, and it works.