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August 22 2008

UI guru Jakob Nielsen’s site is unreadable

By: Angie

Or so says Hank Williams at Why Does Everything Suck?

You know what?

I fully agree. For me, it boils down to horrible, practically non-existent typography. Clearly Nielsen's site is usable (if it weren't then I doubt he'd be much of an expert). But Hank isn't talking about usability here. He's talking about readability, which while it can be considered a part of usability, the two are not the same. And readability and typography go hand in hand. Unfortunately even great experts like Nielsen don't realize that typography is a part of design. In some cases, typography IS the design. Mark Boulton's company website is a beautiful example of this.

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