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Computerworld User interface guru: With Windows 8, Microsoft throws users "under the bus"
PCWorld The Windows 8 UI: How do interface and usability experts rate all the changes?
The Media Briefing Why Banner Blindness Means Display Ads Still Aren't Fit For the Web
NPR The Remote Control: Where do We Go From Here? (one hour podcast)
Fox News The gadgets of 2025: Frog unveils vision of the future
TIME Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read?
BBC The Daily Mail has mastered the art of the long website headline
New York Times As Kindle Fire Takes Heat, Remedies Are Promised
BusinessWeek Voice Control, the End of the TV Remote?
TabTimes User interface guru Jakob Nielsen: "Right now I think Kindle Fire is a bad bargain"
ClickZ Usability for Mobile Sites and Apps
uTest.com Testing the Limits
The Independent Website redesign: Why do we get so angry when the websites we love update their look?
Ironworks Video report from Usability Week San Francisco (2:34 min. video)
The Guardian The art of slow reading Has endlessly skimming short texts on the internet made us stupider?
The Guardian Jakob Nielsen critiques the iPad's usability failings
Daily Telegraph Apple iPad apps need more consistency, says usability guru (includes 3-minute video where I demo some inconsistencies in iPad apps)
BusinessWeek Hardware Is Meaningless. It's About the Apps (a debate about value in the mobile space — my position is that tight integration between hardware and software is what we need)
WIRED Interface Expert Knocks iPad Apps for Inconsistent Usability
Monocle Lessons learnt from the iPad
BusinessWeek World's 28 most influential design "movers and shakers" (including Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman)
Net@Night Why is Web design still often bad? (podcast show with Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur; 66 minutes streaming audio; my segment starts at the 21:40 mark)
TIME Magazine Why We Look at Some Web Ads and Not Others
Web Designer Depot Interview with Web Usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen
USA Today Mobile web a throwback to the '90s
BusinessWeek Jakob Nielsen Critiques Twitter
Intranet Journal Social Networking Transforms the Best Intranets
Wall Street Journal The Latest Buzz On... Interface Design
PC Pro Recipe for a billion-dollar website
BBC Web users 'getting more selfish'
Practical Ecommerce Bloglist
The Guardian The web design guru that web designers love to hate
Search Engine Land Jakob Nielsen On Search Usability
BusinessWeek Google Is Making You Dumber
BBC Web 2.0 'neglecting good design'
E-consultancy Interview with Jakob Nielsen
ZDNet Usability makes business sense
SitePoint Interview with Jakob Nielsen
Wall Street Journal For Web-Design Expert, Ease of Use And Clarity Are Essential for Firms
Washington Post If This Column Were a Web Site, This Would Be Its Home Page
The Guardian Two words is a minute description of a human need
USA Today Survey offers a 'sneak peek' into Net surfers' brains
BusinessWeek The Unwieldy Web
WIRED What Websites Do to Turn On Teens