Jakob Nielsen, the Web-usability guy, recently put out an alert:
"Excessive word count and worthless details are making it harder for people to extract useful information. The more you say, the more people tune out your message."
Yes, true, but it's not as if Strunk and White didn't say it decades ago.
Am I the only person who believes that Nielsen is the epitome of "do what I say, not what I do"? He's a design guru whose Web page is you-gly and his alert to use less text goes on and on. He's got tiny margins and huge lines. No graphics, apparently to accommodate his army of 14.4KB readers. Dunno, seems weird to me.
Posted by: mike on August 27, 2003 09:23 PMPost a comment
