50,000 watts of power … Got my radio on
It’s true. Every day, in web departments and web design firms across America (and probably the world), a common and ugly refrain is repeated”
Our users are stupid.
They won’t get it.
Project managers and developers describe their own users as below average, behind the curve and not savvy.
It’s disgusting. No other mainstream industry would dream of […]
My article on “stupid users” seems to have stirred quite a bit of debate, with quite a few people seemingly convinced that the users are, in fact, stupid, and there’s nothing that can be done about it. That’s just not the case.
There’s quite a bit that can be done to help “stupid users.”
I’m […]
Found on Boxes and Arrows:
Web Dogma ‘06
Anything that exists only to satisfy the internal politics of the site owner must be eliminated.
Anything that exists only to satisfy the ego of the designer must be eliminated.
Anything that is irrelevant within the context of the page must be eliminated.
Any feature or technique that reduces the visitor’s ability […]
Over on Creating Passionate Users, Kathy Sierra is musing on the value of ideas and how they spread.
In particular, I like how she pointed out that ideas by themselves mean little. How they’re implemented means everything.
It’s not about our ideas, it’s about what the ideas can do for our users.
Ideas are a dime a […]