Articles

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox articles about interface usability and website design.

Technology

Hardware Specs vs. User Experience

November 5, 2012

Product quality has to be judged in the context of human tasks, and reviews should emphasize real use—not raw numbers.

Computer Screens Getting Bigger

May 7, 2012

Reasonably big monitors have finally become the most common class of desktop computer screen, dethroning the 1024×768 resolution that was long the target for web design.

Browser and GUI Chrome

January 30, 2012

'Chrome' is the user interface overhead that surrounds user data and web page content. Although chrome obesity can eat half of the available pixels, a reasonable amount enhances usability.