Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen
book simplicity humanity
...the book is a manifesto to make the Web atone for the sins of computers and regain a level of simplicity that can put humanity at peace with its tools once again.
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Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things to confuse users, less risk of user errors, less description and documentation, and therefore simpler Help content. Removing any one feature automatically increases the usability of the remaining ones.
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Three Tips: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.
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People are extremely good at screening out things and focusing in on a small number of salient page elements.
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People all over the world are experiencing unprecedented levels of empowerment.
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Overall, the balance between remote regions and the center will change in favor of a more distributed lifestyle.
allow higher internal natural training
Traditionally, an intranet has higher bandwidth, so you could allow more multimedia, such as a lot of training applications, ... That's a natural for a lot of internal applications.
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Users spend most of their time on other websites.
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You don't just want to just shoot them off into e-mail land.
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Right now, the Web is so slow that even the fastest line is going to suffer with multimedia and get in the way of the user's goals, and reduce the quality of the user experience.
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People pay horribly little attention to their intranets, ... People used to think intranets were where all the action is. Right now, it's abandoned territory.
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People give up if the item is not found where it's expected to be,
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They problem is, can people trust them to be independent reviews, or do they feel like it's more and more sales information?
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Investors want to understand what a company does, ... Tech companies seem incapable of explaining their products in layman's terms, preferring to keep it a deep secret what they do.