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Nielsen watch 2003

Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003 make interesting reading this year, covering topics including undated content, incomprehensible thumbnails and overly specific forms. In previous years Jakob’s complaints tended to center around far more obvious problems such as horizontal scroll bars and fixed size fonts. Either the field of web usability has matured to the point where the common issues are less glaringly obvious or Jakob is running out of low-hanging fruit.

Posted 23rd December 2003 at 3:05 am

This is Nielsen watch 2003 by Simon Willison, posted on 23rd December 2003.

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  1. how do you dynamically update the blogs you read on your web site? kaushal parikh http://www.kaushalparikh.com

    kaushal parikh - 23rd December 2003 16:08 - #

  2. I think that it's done in the same way as many of ours ... through http://blo.gs. Once you've got a list there that updates whenever the blog owner updates and pings blo.gs, then it is not particularly difficult to display the same on your own blog. There are instructions if you go to blo.gs and then the Share section.

    Meri - 23rd December 2003 18:05 - #

  3. ROTFL! What a great idea. Sorry for being offtopic, I just saw a random muppet-character appear in your header. Or was I not? It's gone now, but I could have sworn I saw Beaker (the nervous assistant of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew)... *wandersOfScaredOfHimself*

    Sencer - 25th December 2003 23:11 - #

  4. I don't know he is added, but I have seen him myself. Its just an animated gif with a lot of empty space. http://simon.incutio.com/images/2003/beaker-animat ed.gif

    Henning - 28th December 2003 21:22 - #

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