Monday, May 13, 2002

I find it more than a little ironic that Nielsen's Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability is actually painful for me to read. Why? First, the headlines are so visually overwhelming that it's difficult to focus my eyes on the body text. Second, the body text has no margins and thus there are so many words per line that it's difficult for my eyes to follow along the paragraphs. Usability and design don't have to be at cross purposes. [Ken Rawlings] 8:35:46 PM     Real Names the Real Scoop: Keith Teare has a great write-up about the end of RealNames. Very interesting stuff because it shows, from a different perspective, how internal strive at MS can mess up infrastructure companies. The "not invented here" mentality that Keith refers to is indeed very small-minded and concerns many of us. For the other side of the story, The Register has a short one-pager that offers a point of view which emphasizes some aspects that Teare doesn't mention ("lay down with dogs wake up with fleas"). 8:01:45 AM

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