Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has come under fire for his latest suggestions on building mobile websites. Nielsen's controversial advice can be distilled down to this nugget: "good mobile user ...

We’ve all complained about interfaces that load too slowly, but what about when, in this age of high-performance devices and super-fast connections, they perform too quickly? The user experience firm ...

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen believes that web 2.0 is in danger of becoming “glossy but useless.” Nielsen, whose usability guidelines have, for many designers, long been the bible of web interface ...

Dr. Jakob Nielsen, world renown expert on usability, has gotten fed up with the coverage of Apple's "study" saying that larger monitors increase productivity (PDF). He doesn't have anything against ...

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen devoted his Alertbox post this week to showing how interfaces can become confusing if elements like buttons and checkboxes are too far away from the objects they act on, ...

Five years ago when usability research firm Nielsen Norman Group conducted its first intranet design contest, companies viewed their intranet mostly as a nice-to-have, and left it to grow as it may.

<b>commentary </b> The usability expert branded Microsoft's new operating system "disappointing." But his approach would lead to the kind of incremental improvements that have dogged Microsoft for ...

GroupM announced today the launch of a new global audience buying unit, Xaxis. Xaxis will look to centralise WPP's core technology and trading expertise so that it can offer its advertising clients ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D. and User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group (www.nngroup.com ...

I must admit to have grown a little bored with writing about Windows 8 and Windows RT as a product. It's true to say that either of them are complicated, and at the end of it it doesn't matter whether ...