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“Where’s my Googlebox?!” – adventures in search for silver surfers » iheni :: making the web worldwide
Great quotable line from James Christie (comment 10).   And so true – younger generation may be more general savvy with technology, but it doesnt mean for [...]

What is bad CMS design?

Layouts designed as if they were for print.
Layouts that make assumptions about the maximum and minimum length of copy.
Headlines, navigation or copy requiring [non-dynamic] images or flash.
Layouts with ambiguous navigation.
Design that fails to accommodate the stylistic needs of future content, forcing the client to come up with his/her own (often inappropriate) [...]

10 Heuristics for User Interface Design
“When it comes to abstract thinking, humans have
extremely limited brainpower. For example,
short-term memory famously holds only about
7 chunks of information, and these fade from
your brain in about 20 seconds.”
Short-term memory and web usability

Web Designers can be a moody bunch :) but this rings true.  I have noticed an obsession with widgets, by people not sure what they, but they want lots of them, in fact the whole website on the homepage … with a flash thing – video, ads, whatever – oh, and a site-breaking iframe for [...]