Stop blanking passwords...
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- Peter0
Why does this guy still deserve so much attention?
- airey0
fuck this guy. seriously, for all his bullshit look at his site. yes content matters. yes, how that content is communicated also matters. the web is just another avenue of communication yet his philosophies are so far up his own arse it's phenomenal. imagine if magazines took his philosophy of design, you'd have edge to egde, single column, arial bold headers (18pt) and arial text (13pt), all black text on white pages. leave out the images, they don't convey enough information to be worthwhile unless you print them in braille. fucking over-hyped, under-delivering chump.
- airey0
if i have to hear from one more middle management douche that's finished an MBA that told them this guy is all that matters i'll kill someone. seriously, it's as if he's given credence to all the visually challenged out there that design in and of itself doesn't matter. which is crap. it may be shallow but these days you do judge a book buy it's cover, and it's content. if you can't do a good job of both then get someone who can. thanks to neilson and ambiguous self-serving 'market research' some visual illiterates are trying to run the zoo.
- Jurre0
hi site is so badly designed it does not communicate at all, it's a big mess, not scannable, not legible, not searchable and butt fucking ugly.
He does have some good points, having designers care for usability as well. The questions and problems he states are good, the solutions are not - he is not a designer / typographer.
Besides, style branding and user experiences are also communicaton. WIthout the multimedia experience as the web is now, it would have never been popular. All websites looking like Jakob nielsens...depressing.
- slappy0
I think most people get as much web advice from this dude as they do fashion tips. He's been around for a long time and he will continue to be around for a long time. The thing is he gets more redundant with every year.
- Maybe he could port his usability knowledge into the fashion industry? Famous all over again.slappy
- drgss0
yes, a lot of opnions about Jakob Nielsen
any thoughts on the topic about password masking? noneI go against the stream, and support Jakob 100%
- slappy0
Its a non issue, thats why.
- kezza_20
he's so 1999
- shitehawke0
His site hurts my sozzled nozzle.
- imadesigner0
I wonder if he's rich?
- psenso0
is it ironic - that is site is utterly unusable..
and the fact that states "abandon legacy design" when his site seems to have been made with web usability patterns from 1993 ?
- Stugoo0
great thread
- Samush0
he is just voicing his own opinions based on common sense, we all have it, he just shares it.
he didn't mention that the iphone password interaction is a solution to his whining, probably because he doesnt think the iphone is usable.- It's been on mobile phones for years, it's not Apple's idea. I own an iPhone for the record.raf
- SteveJobs0
i've never really strongly disagreed with this guy until now. this is a dumb idea for so many obvious reasons.
i don't know how many times someone will be at my desk and i'll be logging into my computer or a password-protected account with them right by me.
as of now, his credibility has fallen below an acceptable level and i no longer consider him an expert of anything he claims competency in. perhaps i'll make an exception for his ability to have fooled us all into thinking he actually ever was an expert.
- playing devils advocate. He did mention having the option to turn on maskingvoiceof
- kelpie0
I think generally he talks a lot of sense. The hostility toward him betrays a bit of 'head bent out of shape' defensiveness some of the time. His own site looks duff, but the principals he talks about are pretty sound.
- also, I appreciate the layout of his articles, no fuss, just the text, big and comfortable to read.kelpie
- all his chat is wireframe-point design principles, you add graphic design *on top* of this stuff; sorry but its simply less importantkelpie
- important than making the site work based on testing for actual userskelpie
- There's always one.Jnr_Madison
- one what? adult?kelpie
- Son.
One.Peter - Well, I think it's best described like this ******* *** ****** ******* ** ****** ***Jnr_Madison
- you wouldn't know a ******* if it *** you in the ***tkelpie
- < see? completely unusable insultkelpie
- "You wouldn't know a website if it hit you in the cunt" ?Khurram
- <see? even with blanking security issues still arisekelpie
- Haha. Win!Khurram
- Well done, you have the mental capacity of a 10 year old. Congratulations!Jnr_Madison
- Daithi0
Make that two.
No doubt that he's a dick, but the password thing holds water for me – particularly regarding the mobile internet.
- shitehawke0
* stands up, "no I'M Spartacus!"
- Stugoo0
to be honest why not have a toggle... show password characters.
- Took the words right out of my mouth.thatboyneave
- that's what he suggestskelpie
- Maybe I should have read the whole thing...thatboyneave
- Khurram0
You only gotta see someone typing a password for one website and you got the password they use for EVERYTHING.
one.
- My god, I agree with something this cock says.Jnr_Madison
- Eat a dick.Khurram
- You hurt little bitch.Khurram