Call for Entries: Nielsen Norman Group Announces New Competition to Recognize the World's 10 Best Application Designs.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. expert Jakob Nielsen Jakob Nielsen can mean:
The company was founded in 1998. has launched a new competition to recognize the world's best application designs. Ten applications will be singled out for excellence in user experience and will be featured prominently in Nielsen Norman Group's "Application Design Annual: The Year's 10 Best Application UIs" to be published later this year. The deadline for entry is February 29, 2008. The guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. for submissions can be found on Nielsen Norman Group's website http://www.nngroup.com/reports/applications/design/. "We thought it was time that designers share the limelight limelight: see calcium oxide. limelight Early form of theatrical lighting. The incandescent calcium light invented by Thomas Drummond in 1816 was first employed in a theatre in 1837 and was widely used by the 1860s. with others on the creative and executive teams who collaborate to build great practical applications," said Jakob Nielsen, principal of Nielsen Norman Group. "It's our intention with this new competition to draw attention to their contributions, and to give application designers everywhere the opportunity to learn from the best-of-the-best." Eligible entries for Nielsen Norman Group's application design competition are defined as providing features, commands, and functionality that allow users to access or manipulate complex or mission-critical data. The applications can be enterprise applications; vertical applications for narrow markets; Web-based applications See Web application. , including intranet-based apps; mobile applications; and PC-based apps, mainframe apps, client-server apps or any other application architecture. About Nielsen Norman Group Nielsen Norman Group (http://www.nngroup.com) is a user-experience research firm that advises companies on how to succeed through human-centered design of products and services. Nielsen Norman Group principals Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman and Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini are each world-renowned experts in usability and the human use of technology. Besides authoring books and evangelizing about user experience, they and the other user-experience specialists at Nielsen Norman Group offer high-level strategic consultation on usability of websites, consumer products, software designs and anything else that needs to be easy-to-use. Media contact: Darcy Provo, Antenna Group, darcy@antennagroup.com, 415-977-1920. |
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