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Guardian Unlimited | Online | Lazy, stupid and evil design:

“Having a coffee and cake with Jakob Nielsen, the web usability expert from Nielsen Norman Group, I asked him what was holding up progress on the web. ‘Three things, really: I call them lazy, stupid and evil design,’ he replies.”

Oh yeah, those stupid designs. Nielsen mentions those damnable flash intros. Begone with them already! I would add those silly “splash pages” which give you nothing more than a list of word links or, worse, mysterious graphic links, neither giving any hint at all of why you should click and enter the site. Or where you should begin. Or how you’ll be able to navigate once you get there.

deep breath here

I’m a little geeked-up tonight because I’ve made it to page 47 of this book, written by Cleveland Heights CSS maven – Eric Meyer.