Jeff, I'm not discounting Jakob's expertise for a minute. I have the utmost respect for the chap. I'm actually praising his PR ability - keeping himself top of the public consciousness after 20 years in the business. - Ben
_____ From: Jeff Seager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 December 2007 06:59 To: Ben Hunt; ixda Subject: RE: [IxDA Discuss] The mighty UX guru has spoken - Discuss!! There's little doubt that self-promotion is high on Nielsen's list of talents, Ben, but I also think he has a pretty good grasp on the essence of usability. If you read far enough in the Alertbox missive he sent out today, you'll see he's giving away a 150-page study that includes 75 well-summarized accessibility guidelines. Grab it while you can, folks! It's a good reference with actual user testing to back it up, especially handy if you ever need to teach newbies about accessibility ... which I'll be doing next month. You can find it here: http://www.nngroup.com/reports/accessibility Jeff Seager > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:06:09 +0000 > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] The mighty UX guru has spoken - Discuss!! > > What Jakob is best at is causing a stir! He's been doing it for years, > resolutely throwing up over-contentious headlines (remember "Flash 99% bad!" > ?) and refusing to make his own web site any more appealing (they even joke > about that in NNg seminars). He does this in order to make ripples, with > people like us having to take a position one way or another. All that keeps > him in people's minds and on their lips. > > I'm sure we all know the truth is somewhere in between "yes, sometimes" / > "no, usually" and "it depends", and so does Jake! > > - Ben ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
