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January 29, 2005

A decade of good website design

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Jakob Nielsen is a name that draws as much ire or admiration as our sitting President. In this article, Jakob Nielsen looks back over 10 years (1994-2004) and reviews the validity of many of his earlier claims.

Jakob was asked if the web had changed as much as we thought it would back then. . .

Back in 1994, Yahoo had only just launched, most websites were text-based and Amazon, Google and eBay had yet to appear.

But, says usability guru Dr Jakob Nielsen, some things have stayed constant in that decade, namely the principles of what makes a site easy to use.

Dr Nielsen has looked back at a decade of work on usability and considered whether the 34 core guidelines drawn up back then are relevant to the web of today.

Continue on to the BBC Online Article.

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