Web 2.0 ‘distracts good design’

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Chris Hoskin

Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said. He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served.

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2 Responses to “Web 2.0 ‘distracts good design’”

  1. Chris Peters, on May 14th, 2007 at 6:24 pm Said:

    I love Jakob Nielsen because he is very direct on his opinion, and he always has data to support it (if the data isn’t for sale).

    Unfortunately, his positions get overstated often because of this directness. I think the main thing to take away from this is that a lot of web sites and applications suffer from horrible usability issues.

    Even if the Web 2.0 movement didn’t exist, these issues would still be in place. But now people are in a rush to focus on dynamic features that may be useful, but not so much when the rest of the site is a mess.

    And if design firms can’t even get the more static features and content right, chances are that they aren’t getting the AJAX-y features right either!

  2. Hitesh Mehta, on May 17th, 2007 at 7:09 am Said:

    Today, the dynamic web pages are not made in any rush hour, plenty of man hours goes in to research and a lot of effort is being put in by the group of experts to make the NEXT web2.0 product / web site totally user-friendly and easy going with the millions of users on the web. Experts from various streams like research analyst, hardcore technical guys, business development managers, investors, Artificial Intelligence experts, SEO specialists and many others are today extremely involved in making a successful web2.0 product. — READ MY COMPLETE REVIEW HERE: http://hiteshmehta.in/?p=8

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