Interesting reading ahead! From the Report Summary: The granularity of user decisions is much finer on the Web, which is dominated by the instant gratification of the user’s needs in any given instant. Content must cater to this rapid pace. Take special note of the box where Nielsen does a side-by-side comparison explaining the differences between television [...]
... for finding the most up-to-date information on all aspects of usability. Useit.com Useit.com is JakobNielsen’s website dedicated to usability and website design. It offers tons of useful and valuable content on usability, as well as links to his books on usability and other resources. Usability Testing Articles and Guides Most good website design and development blogs out there have...
... wondering, like, what’s the rush? But it does flow naturally from writing blog posts and reading JakobNielsen . ( Eep! ) (Also, love the meta-awareness here: Anderson’s bit about paragraph-level pizzazz is itself a gem of a graf.)
On cranky usability guy Jakob Neilsen's Alertbox, this wonderful chart on the relative "consumption" characteristics of TV vs the web. Velocity of Media Consumption: TV vs. the Web (via ResourceShelf) Previously:CNN ends a web news experiment - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Design critique of JakobNielsen Boing Boing: Good JakobNielsen AlertBox on Jakob...
On cranky usability guy Jakob Neilsen's Alertbox, this wonderful chart on the relative "consumption" characteristics of TV vs the web. Velocity of Media Consumption: TV vs. the Web (via ResourceShelf) Previously:CNN ends a web news experiment - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Design critique of JakobNielsen Boing Boing: Good JakobNielsen AlertBox on Jakob...
Originally published in MediaPost's Search Insider , October 29, 2009. A few years ago, I interviewed usability expert JakobNielsen about where search might go in the future. He shared an interesting insight: " I think there is a tendency now for a lot of not very useful results to be dredged up that happen to be very popular, like Wikipedia and various blogs. They're not going...
... and collections, rather than actually displaying any specific products. The page now has what JakobNielsen calls 'mega drop-down menus' , which display large numbers of product categories and sub-categories: Larger drop-down menus like this one avoid some of the possible drawbacks of smaller versions, such as accidentally moving the mouse outside of the menu and having it disappear,...
... whereas buttons allow you to perform an action (such as submit a form). In one of his articles, JakobNielsen writes about command links , which are a blend of links and buttons. But he recommended that command links be limited to actions with minor consequences and to secondary commands. To learn more about primary and secondary commands (and actions), check out Primary and Secondary...
An article titled “What Gets Lost When Our Finances Go Paperless,” includes a couple of comments by web-usability expert, Dr. JakobNielsen, that are worth mentioning. From the Article: The problem is we take in information from a website differently than we do from a sheet of paper. “The online medium lends itself to a more [...]
Hosts: Leo Laporte , Jeff Jarvis , Baratunde Thurston , and John C. DvorakModern Warfare 2 is the biggest media launch of all time but PC gamers are hopping mad, how come usability expert JakobNielsen's site looks so bad, and so long Geocities... For additional show notes, visit the wiki page for this episode . Links to stories we covered (and then some) are available from Delicious...
... be our accidentally thinking text-only ads are part of the information we're looking for. But as JakobNielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group explains it, the nature of the Web itself might be coming into play as well. Unlike television, which is a passive medium, the Web is all about taking action -- searching, clicking, registering, buying, downloading. It might be the case...
... our attention.The findings are presented in a chapter of a new book, Eyetracking Web Usability, by JakobNielsen and Kara Pernice of the consultancy Nielsen Norman Group. Don't let the bland title fool you: what Nielsen and Pernice have done is track the eye movements of hundreds of people as they navigate websites, looking up advice on how to deal with heartburn, shopping...
... then? Knowledge. Few people knew how to build a good website back then, before authorities like JakobNielsen starting evangelizing their studies of web user behavior. Difficulty. In those days, there weren’t abundant software and templates that could produce a visually pleasing, easy-to-use website in 10 minutes. Instead, you either hand-coded your site in Notepad or used FrontPage....
Nielsen s approach is to test usability using one or preferably more real users Unlike the site s designers and other company employees real users don t know what they re supposed to do and often won t take the time to find out One of the main reasons companies need systematic usability studies is to make explicit the fact that outside customers don t find your design as important as you do...
In 1996, while discussing the importance of the inverted pyramid style of writing, usability expert JakobNielsen wrote that “users don’t scroll”. From there the idea of The Fold as an integral part of web design came into being. But, as Nielsen himself has said, the Internet has evolved and “as users got more experience with [...]
