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A guide to email newsletters and RSS usability: Jakob Nielsen and Amy Schade of the Nielsen Norman Group just published a 544-page study on email newsletter usability, including 165 guidelines for subscriptions, content, managing accounts and RSS-based news feeds. It’s the third edition of the study, which the company has done about every two years so far. One...; Tags: newsletter, Nielsen Norman Group, e-mail; Blog posts 2006-06-16
Eye tracking Web usability: User interface guru Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group is on the road, giving seminars based on a recently completed an eye-tracking study that indicates how users consume Web pages--such as where people start browsing on a page, whether they have banner and text link blindness, where users look...; Tags: Nielsen Norman Group; Blog posts 2006-03-27

MySpace: IT on a wing and a Microsoft prayer: Baselines David Carr has an interesting tale of MySpaces IT operations. In a nutshell, the company is winging it with a Microsoft-based platform amid massive growth. Here are a few takeaways from the article, which is linked here to the printer version (the story is broken up...; Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Microsoft, MySpace; Blog posts 2007-01-17
10 best intranets for 2005: Nielsen Norman Group, a usability consulting company, published the list of top 10 intranets. The world's ten best intranets for 2005 are:Banco Espanol de Credito Banesto, the third largest bank in SpainCisco Systems, the world's leading computer networking vendor USAElectrolux, the world's largest manufacturer of powered appliances SwedenThe Integer Group,...; Tags: Intranet; Blog posts 2005-03-08
10 best intranets for 2005: Nielsen Norman Group, a usability consulting company, published the list of top 10 intranets. The world's ten best intranets for 2005 are:Banco Espanol de Credito Banesto, the third largest bank in SpainCisco Systems, the world's leading computer networking vendor USAElectrolux, the world's largest manufacturer of powered appliances SwedenThe Integer Group,...; Tags: Intranet; Blog posts 2005-03-08

Jakob Nielsen reports top 10 intranets: Web design and usability experts at the Nielsen Norman Group released their annual Ten Best Intranets study. Jakob Nielsen, the "guru of Web usability," said that the difficulty in selecting winners this time around was indicative of progress in designing usable intranets. "More and more companies are treating their intranets...; Tags: Intranet; Blog posts 2005-03-02
95% of users hate po-ups, 69% use pop-up blockers: Usability guru Jakob Nielsen presents findings of research done by Yahoo! and eBay in regards to the most common site annoynaces. It's hardly a surprise that pop-ups, slowness and various gimmicks to enforce users clicking on the ads rated at the top of the annoyances list. Design Element Users Answering "Very Negatively" or "Negatively" Pops-up...; Tags: pop-up blocker; Blog posts 2004-12-08
95% of users hate pop-ups, 69% use pop-up blockers: Usability guru Jakob Nielsen presents findings of research done by Yahoo! and eBay in regards to the most common site annoynaces. It's hardly a surprise that pop-ups, slowness and various gimmicks to enforce users clicking on the ads rated at the top of the annoyances list. Design Element Users Answering "Very Negatively" or "Negatively" Pops-up...; Tags: pop-up blocker; Blog posts 2004-12-07

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