I just ran across openusability.org, a site devoted to connecting open source software developers and usability practitioners with an interest in contributing to open source projects.
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March 2006
I was catching up on my UCD-related reading today, and noticed that WebWord blogged an article at UIGarden.net in which a kind-of-bitchy Don Norman – yes, that Don Norman – snarks at Google.
In “The Truth About Google’s So-Called Simplicity”, Norman dings Google.com for being, among other things, “deceptive”. Here are some quotes:
- “Look, I like Google. It’s a great search engine. But I am sick and tired of hearing people praise its clean, elegant look.”
- “Is Google simple? No. Google is deceptive. It hides all the complexity by simply showing one search box on the main page.”
I guess you just have to come off like a Fox News pundit when you reach the top of your field…still, it seems like Norman and Nielsen are shooting from the hip a lot as of late.
But of course I’m not their target audience. They’re not talking to me. They’re talking to the media and to the C-levels…maybe they respond better to this stuff.
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…Love that whiteboard logo. Like its tagline says, Usability Views provides links to over 10,000 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, HCI and web design.
It’s run by a guy from the UK named Chris McEvoy. McEvoy strikes me as a bit of a curmudgeon, especially when it comes to Jakob Nielsen. But Jakob makes himself conveniently easy to take issue with, given as he is to grand pronouncements about usability and the web.
So McEvoy can certainly be forgiven for ragging on Nielsen…
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