[Web4lib] Nielsen's Top 10 - 2005 version

[K.G. Schneider]

> I've been through 7 major website redesigns and worked with the end users
> afterwards, and I now have the theory that whenever a designer comes up a
> design principle or element that he/she thinks is extremely well-crafted
> and
> elegant, they should immediately strike it out, because it will almost
> always cause immense annoyance to the users when implemented.

Funny play on Johnson's words--"where ever you meet with a passage
which you think is particularly fine, strike it out"--though I might change
it with "or test it out." Your users will tell you if they don't like it,
and I find it much more convincing to persuade a designer with proof. 

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com