Offensive website alert

Cool idea though: Fuck this website. [...]

Fjaril drawers

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

as declared by Tech Support Alert. [...]

Finished!

Looks like Jakob Nielsen has finished his re-design. [...]

Google vanity ring

Just My Type

75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets

A free PDF download from Jakob Nielsen focussing on Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities. [...]

Screen optimisation

Jakob suggests this:Optimize Web pages for 1024x768, but use a liquid layout that stretches well for any resolution, from 800x600 to 1280x1024 [...]

10 High-Profit Redesign Priorities

Jakob Nielson lists 10 high priority re-design priorities. It's a list of things you should consider if your aim is to increase return on investment w [...]

Find out when a web page was last updated

Here's a handy way to check the last updated date and time of a web page. Open up the web page you want to check and then type this into the address b [...]

Accessibility Is Not Enough

In typical, blustery fashion, Jakob Nielsen decries that having an accessible web site isn't enough... it's got to be usable as well.A strict focus [...]

Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings

Jakob Nielsen discusses recent findings from some eyeball tracking research he carried out. He found that people don't look at banner adverts unless t [...]

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005

Well, there's still plenty of time for plenty more web design mistakes to be made in 2005, but here's Jakob Nielsen's list anyway. [...]

Web Design Mistakes 2003

From Jakob Nielson's Alertbox:Sites are getting better at using minimalist design, maintaining archives, and offering comprehensive services. Howeve [...]

Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox declares the top 10 application-design mistakes:Non-standard GUI controlsInconsistencyNo perceived affordanceNo feedbackBad e [...]

The nation's online wish list

Interesting survey by Directgov which sought to find the most wished-for online services currently unavailable. The top answers were:'No show' truancy [...]

Adobe e-doc format under siege

One of the most influential Web design writers, Jakob Nielsen, recently attacked the widespread use of PDF for displaying documents over the Web, [...]

10 Best Application UIs of 2008

Maybe a bit too early for a best of anything in 2008 but Jakob has posted a very interesting Alertbox. He focusses on 10 applications (web and desktop [...]

Inferiority complex

Cycling home from work the other day. Perishingly cold. Four blocks of ice, two on the handlebars and two on the pedals. I wanna melt those block [...]

Link dump #68

Birthday Cake Hole

And it was a happy birthday cake hole too.For six months of the year "L" is two years my senior and she doesn't really like it. It reminds her that [...]

A face to a URL

What's just as important as the font face used on a website?If you're like me, when you hear a new band on the radio you want to know what they look [...]