27th
April
2001
jakob nielsen, slick and wrong
“It should be admitted that Nielsen gets a great deal right… Unfortunately, though, he gets one little detail utterly wrong, and his wrongness on that detail is enough to force a rethinking of his entire argument. Part of Nielsen’s stance is the assertion that graphics usually compromise the rapid delivery of information, that linked text is sufficient to the needs of the vast majority of the Web audience, that loadtime should be the primary consideration in web design: in short, that there is One Best Answer to your design issue, whatever it should happen to be, and that answer is Jakob Nielsen’s.”