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Jakob Nielsen has

July 24, 2000 by Michael Boyle

published a new Alertbox article, “End of Web Design.” He writes, “Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.”

No it doesn’t. It means that although each of the sites are different, users don’t mind your particular differences that much, really, and if you keep doing a good job of serving them, you’ll succeed. More – maybe it means that because the sites are different they are successful, because people like diversity, especially when reading or shopping, two things the web is used for extensively.

Tags: Design, Web, Web Design

Joel Spolsky has

July 24, 2000 by Michael Boyle

a weblog called Joel on Software. He wrote a really good analysis of the Microsoft .NET stuff the other day entitled Microsoft Goes Bonkers. He’s right too – there’s no there there with dotNET. I would only add that the big problem is not a technological one, it’s cultural. That’s why I like Deepleap and sites like it. Companies like Deepleap are addressing the central question of how people will use the web in a more fundamental way than most others – it’s not about information, it’s about relationships. [link via calebos.org]

Tags: Analysis, Blogging, Microsoft, Software, War, Web

I know the guys

July 21, 2000 by Michael Boyle

who developed the original website for the Journal de Montreal. The publisher shut it down today.

Tags: Montreal, Web

Janelle Brown wrote

July 21, 2000 by Michael Boyle

a fun little piece in Salon called The iMac fashion headache.

Tags: Salon

Great, but will

July 21, 2000 by Michael Boyle

it result in progress? FTC Goes Public With Privacy [from Wired News].

Tags: Privacy, Wired

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