RE: Nielsen frags PDF with misinformative Alertbox... AGAIN!

[Michael West <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- net -dot- au>]

Bonnie wrote:
>  I am amazed that this guy's
> held up as an online design guru when his Web site is so unusable and hard to
> read. Who wants to resize the window just to avoid line lengths that are 100%
> of the width of the screen? When did such a thing become good design?


I don't mind the re-sizing -- I normally do it
anyway, to suit my preference, so people
who used fixed-width text columns are my
real nemesis. But what a mess of color and 
type one has to sort through on Nielsen's page! 
It's what the Aussie's call a mad dog's breakfast. 
Obviously a different concept of "design" is at 
work here.

Nielsen's main point is business-focussed. 
People are supposed to *buy* things, not 
linger on the page reading free articles.

The guy is about money-making, not 
aesthetics.

--
Mike West
Melbourne


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