File under “Strange bedfellows”: Announcing
Tuesday, June 4th, 2002File under “Strange bedfellows”:
Announcing a strategic partnership between Macromedia and Nielsen Norman Group
Yeah, that’s Macromedia, makers of Flash, and Jakob Neislen, author of Flash: 99% Bad.
I know a few Flash designers who’ll go nuts over this. You have to applaud Macromedia’s committment to usability, though. It appears they know there are issues with Flash and they want to address them.
Incidently, here’s a quote from Jakob’s latest article:
Basically, we now have the entire elite online: Almost all early adopters, technology enthusiasts, and highly educated people use the Internet. The next decade will bring the usability challenge of making the Internet sufficiently easy for the other half of the population to use.
Ah, yes. The “other half.” Those drooling troglodytes who haven’t even figured out AOL yet. Poor slobs.
