"Software usability expert Jakob Nielsen made a surprise announcement on his website useit.com this week that he will be branching out from website/software usability and now be including lingual and cultural usability into his studies."

Links:

• Jakob Nielsen Declares the Letter "C" Unusable 

Henrik Olsen - May 13, 2003 - via Usability News

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And the winner is: USABILITY!

Links:

• Googlefight 

Henrik Olsen - March 05, 2003 - via Croc o' Lyle

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Dilbert: "My design will meet all of our customers' current and future needs."

Marketing: "That's no good. They'll never need to upgrade."

Dilbert: "Please don't ask me to put flaws in my design."

The pointy-haired boos: "Flaws would work."

Links:

• The Dilbert 

Henrik Olsen - February 14, 2003 - via the OTHER blog

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Have plenty of floppy disks ready...

Links:

• Download the internet 

Henrik Olsen - January 26, 2003 - via HyDesign

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An example of how a tiny modification to an existing and widely used system can make all the difference.

Links:

• Fly UI 

Tim Lucas - January 16, 2003 - via Webword

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In case you haven't read Mark Hurst's interview with Amazon.com's Maryam Mohit, here are two examples from the interview proving that designing e-commerce sites doesn't have to be boring.

Links:

• Shopper who shopped for this item also wear 
• The butterfly ballot joke 
• Previous post about the interview 

Henrik Olsen - December 03, 2002

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I just found this nice portrait of Jakob Nielsen in an article at the BBC News site.

The article is about a web design exhibition at the London's Design Museum called Web Wizards, featuring Joshua Davis, Yugo Nakamura, Danny Brown and others.

It seems that Joshua Davis doesn't quite appreciate the work of Jakob Nielsen:

"He rubs me up the wrong way. By saying we should all embrace standards, he would create an internet where everything was concrete and unforgiving. His ideas don't promote growth, they stifle creativity. We are at opposite ends of the spectrum."

"I once sent him an e-mail - that he probably still has - saying that I'd beat him up if I saw him."

Henrik Olsen - November 05, 2002

See also: Fun with Jakob Nielsen (9) 

Derek R has replaced "shark" with "Jakob Nielsen" in quotes from the movie Jaws. "Don't know what that bastard Jakob Nielsen's gonna do with it. Might eat it I suppose."

Links:

• Derek R's post to SIG-IA 

Henrik Olsen - October 18, 2002

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GUUUI isn't a Flash promotion site, but there's a lot of talk about Flash and usability. And the Milko Music Machine from the Swedish dairy Milko is really something. You can produce your own music videos with the Milko cow as the star. Choose between metal, hip-hop and disco, mix dance steps, vocals and effects clips, and send your very own music video to friends and family. Everything is done with direct manipulation.

Milko has also made a follow-up

Links:

• Milko Music Machine 
• Milko Muscle Machine 
• The agency farfar 

Henrik Olsen - October 02, 2002

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Alice has been exposed to a user interface designed by an engineer...

The doctor to Alice: You have chronic mahjobbis crappus but that's not why you puked. Have you been expsed to any user interfaces designed by engineers?

Alice: Yes.

The doctor: You have interface poisoning. You'll be dead in a week.

Links:

• The Daily Dilbert (September 24, 2002) 

Henrik Olsen - September 24, 2002

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