Posting Date: June 10, 2002

Reduce Redundancy: Decrease Duplicated Design Decisions (useit.com) -- "User interface complexity increases when a single feature or hypertext link is presented in multiple ways. Users rarely understand duplicates as such, and often waste time repeating efforts or visiting the same page twice by mistake." (Comments: Does Jakob read WebWord?)

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Question: When is the last time Jakob Nielsen posted something outside the normal media channels or his own web site. For example, when is the last time he posted something on CHI-WEB, or some other usability type of list? I'm just curious.

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 10, 2002 08:10 PM

By the way, I know that I send quite a bit of traffic to useit.com for Jakob. For the last several years his statistics page included traffic from "vortals", blogs, and other sites like WebWord (e.g., Tomalak's Realm). Not any more. That is sad because it showed that WebWord had some influence.

...maybe Jakob fears WebWord? (That's a joke.)

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 10, 2002 08:14 PM

Everyone fears WebWord. You know it.

Posted by: Matt Rhodes on June 10, 2002 08:52 PM

Why does John still link to this guy? Jakob's useful days are behind him.

Posted by: JS on June 10, 2002 09:56 PM

Wow! A useit.com article that is not a promotion for a NNG research report.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - A. Einstein

Posted by: on June 10, 2002 10:26 PM

You run a useful site, but it is nothing compared to my own. Do you know how many visitors I get in a month? Yes, I get a few hundred referrals from you, but it's a very small percentage of my total page views.

You may be good, Rhodes, but you're not me.
And to all the other posters, what's wrong if I sell a few reports and make some money? Is there something wrong with earning a living? Don't you find my articles useful? I don't charge for them, you know.

Posted by: Jakob Nielsen on June 11, 2002 01:30 AM

If only he had really said that.

Posted by: on June 11, 2002 01:49 AM

Alertbox: 32.7% Good
Most Recent Readers Comments in Alertbox: Oct 2000
Backlinks to 1999 Alertbox Articles: 4538
Backlinks to 2000 Alertbox Articles: 3140
Backlinks to 2001 Alertbox Articles: 2030
Backlinks to 2002 Alertbox Articles: 1012 (5 months)
Flash before Jakob: 99% Bad
Flash after Jakob: 2% Good (assuming 100% increase in usability)

Posted by: Mac on June 11, 2002 05:00 AM

Haha. If only Nielson had really said that. I wonder...

Posted by: Matt Rhodes on June 11, 2002 03:19 PM

Amazing. Even here on WebWord Jakob Nielsen generates all the buzz. Take a look at all the postings today. This one has the most comments, by far. WHY?

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 11, 2002 05:09 PM

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