Jakob Nielsen, an author of web usability books and a well-known design evangelist, told silicon.com that he thinks 90 per cent of websites are poorly designed. Large companies have huge teams of people designing for them, but they forget who the...
Many companies don't have a coordinated intranet strategy but rather tons of small fiefdoms with their own search tools and navigation," said Jakob Nielsen, a principal at the Norman Group and an expert on website and computer usability.
Vista will dramatically improve the security for Windows users but they have some execution and usability challenges," he said. However, the security enhancements have stayed largely intact. New security features in Windows Vista will largely...
At the heart of the issue is a far greater problem which dogs much of our internet and IT security: usability and security, at their extremes, are mutually exclusive. And yet when we try to force that greater complexity upon the end user, the...
There are really serious usability concerns in this context that haven't fully been tested. For example, designing an interface that enables downloading music from a catalogue without using a keyboard is tricky.
Apple is again trying to light up the computer market, according to a patent filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office. A patent application, listing Apple as the assignee and Duncan Kerr and Steve Hotelling as the inventors, was published on...