Paramilitary wing of the usability movement
Over at NTK, they've established "the paramilitary wing of the usability movement." Think of this as Shoemakers' Elves who taking marching orders from Edward Tufte. NTK has called on usability engineers to find themselves egregiously unusable websites whose information is nonetheless important, to scrape these websites, and to redesign them so that they don't suck. Check out the before and after -- we get loads of complaints about the Boing Boing layout, and we syndicate almost everything on this page with RSS. I've seen a couple of neat experiments in page-redesign from readers, but why not do more? Go ahead, remix us. Post links to the Discuss area. Link DiscussShare this post
Cory Doctorow
Upcoming appearances
* Feb 9, 2012, DeKalb, IL: Day of Doctorow, NIU
* Feb 10-12, 2012, Chicago, IL: Capricon 32
* Feb 13, 2012, Arlington, TX: UT Arlington College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series
* Feb 16, 2012, Victoria, BC: 13th Annual Privacy and Security Conference
Recent books:
* Context (essays)
* With a Little Help (short stories)
* For the Win (YA novel)
* Makers (adult novel)
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