How Little Do Users Read? (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) Long vs. Short Articles as Content Strategy (Jakob Nielsen' Write Articles, Not Blog Postings (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox. Blog Usability: Top 10 Weblog Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen. Design for Web 2.0 (kottke.org) Jason Fried, Jeff Veen, and I did a workshop yesterday on Design for Web 2.0. In preparing for the informal chat we had among ourselves and with the audience, we prepared a list of questions to consider. There's about 15 of them, presented here unedited without context or answers: - Right now, Web design feels like talking to the del.icio.us API and blending Flickr RSS with Upcoming iCal subscriptions.
What happens when design(ers) has little to do with what's on the page? - Blogs democratized publishing, now "tags" could be considered to democratize information architecture. . - How do we justify the high upfront costs of doing user research? - I love quick wins. . - It feels to me that IT departments still operate under the assumption that technology is a precious resource that should be guarded carefully and trickled out. . - Can usability drive innovation? - How do you go about designing for groups? - Do brochureware sites still have a place on today's Web? - Should one design fit all? Creating Passionate Users. My Favorite Graphs... and the future This blog has always been about optimism, creating better user experiences, helping users spend more time in flow, and learning.
There are 405 posts here. More importantly, there are nearly 10,000 comments from y'all that add so much more to the topics, and from which myself and others have learned a great deal. I don't want the last thing people remember about this blog to be The Bad Things. So, I've moved my original "threats" post--something many people find very difficult to look at-- to a different web page -- rather than keeping it as a post here. If you want to read the original content of the post (it lost some formatting), it's here. But I want the thing people see when they come here now to reflect what this blog has always been about, so I'm including a few of my favorite pictures from the last two years here.
I made no money from this blog -- it was always a labor of love. That leaves me with... what to do next? Please help. Probably, yes.