Alertbox article by Jacob Nielson discussing the limitations and pitfalls of PDF as an online publishing tool.

Jakob Nielsen's alertbox, reports and books on usable information technologies.

Future UIs vs. today's canonical window system: user focus, computer's role, interface control, syntax, object visibility, interaction stream, bandwidth, tracking feedback, interface locus, user programming, software packaging.

Usability expert Jakob Nielsen's take on Online Communities: "The Web is not a community: a huge impersonal city is a better metaphor. User-contributed content can be valuable (if edited), but chat rooms should be avoided because of participation ineq...

Alertbox article from Jakob Nielsen, explaining how many blogs are too internally focused and make it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author.

A classic article by Jakob Nielsen.

Jakob Nielsen defines the phaenomenon linkrot, and encourages site owners to fight it by reducing outbound linkrot and securing stability of incoming links.

Jakob Nielsen shares his thoughts on usability.

Jakob Nielsen's bi-weekly column on current issues in Web usability, focusing on simple and minimalist design based on real user needs.

Sites are getting better at using minimalist design, maintaining archives, and offering services. However, these advances entail their own usability problems, as several prominent mistakes from 2003 show.