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:: Friday, February 04, 2005 ::

Mystery meat navigation, business execs that don't care about the web site drywall, confusing web design with sex and using Microsoft FrontPage (blech!) to build a site are just a fraction few of the points in the hilarious The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004.

Stunningly accurate, this pie-in-your-face look at web page techniques that suck is far better than any lecture, or web site checklist. Learn by humor. How come Jakob doesn't do this?

Speaking of which, if you work on a web site for teens, Jakob Nielsen has a good piece on usability testing findings...Usability of Websites for Teenagers.

In the UK?

Netimperitive has this thing called The Lifetime Award (left side nav, scroll down.)
"Vote for who you think deserves to be recognised for their lifetime contribution to the UK's digital business."

I don't know many of the folks, but notable is Danny Sullivan, who has become part of the living room furniture on both sides of the ocean. More info.

Behind the Curtin

Okay. So there are days at work where you feel like you are either Dorothy, Scarecrow, The Tin Man or the Lion - or all four. You're out to see the Wizard. To complete the journey, there's project management, sub-contractors, angry emails to the departments holding you up and a place to scream when management just doesn't get it.

Do you hide information, just to keep some project sanity? Or, so the client has no idea they hired a place that's dysfunctional? There's some interesting thoughts on the matter by the makers of Basecamp, an online project management software tool.

In Open and honest communication, Jason Fried at Signal vs Noise, writes,

"One of the top requests as of late is for a company to be able to hide contractors from their clients. They don’t want their clients to know that third party contractors are working on their projects. Anyway you look at that, someone isn’t getting the whole truth. It puzzles me."

Ego Trip

Somebody is sure to fall for this stunt. Like I'm gonna pay someone money so I can "see expressions on people's faces when I show up with my Tiara and Boa."

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 2/04/2005 02:18:26 PM

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