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28 Sep 2009 21:34

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Tech: Usability supergenius Jakob Nielsen: Don’t let fads suck you in

No matter your opinion of the controversial Nielsen – who wrote an early book on hypertext back in 1989 – he’s a fascinating interviewee. source

24 Aug 2009 21:09

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Tech: Jakob Nielsen, usability’s stickler, makes the perfect Tweet

  • LAS VEGAS (October) and BERLIN (November): venues for our biggest usability conference ever http://bit.ly/UsabilityWeek
  • The Perfect Tweet • So designed by five rounds of Jakob Nielsen and his usability nerds. With this tweet, Nielsen considered everything: Wording, timing, the capitalization of letters, the number of characters, the visual impact of the line of text, the use of a bit.ly URL, and so on. We think he’s crazy and needs to throw in some hashtags. • source