Usability is not the most important thing on earth A Quote by Joel Spolsky www.joelonsoftware.com Jakob Nielsen says that Flash is “99% bad.” I have to agree. Flash always reduces usability. On the other hand, every time I read Jakob Nielsen, I get this feeling that he really doesn’t appreciate that usability is not the most important thing on earth. Sure, usability is important (I wrote a whole book about it). But it is simply not everyone’s number one priority, nor should it be. You get the feeling that if Mr Nielsen designed a singles bar, it would be well lit, clean, with giant menus printed in Arial 14 point, and you’d never have to wait to get a drink. But nobody would go there, they would all be at Coyote Ugly Saloon pouring beer on each other. Web Brutalism, seamfulness, and notion ux
scribe.rip An Application scribe.rip I hadn't realized that Medium had made JavaScript a requirement to be able to read any Medium post - I'd had JS disabled for ages on Medium just because of all the extra cruft they added. But now, without JS, you only get the first few lines of content, and the rest is loaded entirely with JS - which is...stupid. Scribe fixes all that and focuses entirely on the author's content. Why Would I Want to Use This? You believe in an open web You believe more in the author than the platform You don't like the reading experience that Medium provides You object to Medium's extortionist business tactics You're concerned about how Medium uses your data Other reasons wwwblogging