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Developmental Editing: Home Page Outline

This outline shows the structure of the useit.com home page in October, 2002. The majority of links on the home page take the user off-site.

Square brackets ([]) enclose descriptors of untitled sections. Arrows (→) indicate link destinations. Dollar signs ($) indicate content that must be purchased.

  1. Permanent Content
    1. Allertbox
      1. Jakob’s bi-weekly column on Web usability
      2. Email Newsletters Pick Up Where Websites Leave Off (September 30) → /alertbox/20020930.html
        1. Users have highly emotional reactions to newsletters which feel much more personal than websites. In usability testing, success rates were high for subscribe and unsubscribe tasks, but users were frustrated by newsletters that demanded too much of their time.
      3. Offshore Usability (September 16) → /alertbox/20020916.html
      4. 10 Best Intranets of 2002 (September 3) → /alertbox/20020903.html
      5. Let Users Control Font Size (August 19) → /alertbox/20020819.html
      6. All Alertbox columns from 1995 to 2002 → /alertbox/
      7. Get a short newsletter by email when a new Alertbox is published → /alertbox/subscribe.html
    2. Reports
      1. Email Newsletters: 79 design guidelines → www.nngroup.com $
      2. Intranet Design Annual: 2001 and 2002 → www.nngroup.com $
      3. E-commerce usability: 207 design guidelines → www.nngroup.com $
      4. Children and senior citizens: age-specific usability → www.nngroup.com $
      5. Users with disabilities: 75 usability guidelines → www.nngroup.com $
      6. PR area of corporate sites: designing for journalists → www.nngroup.com $
      7. Site map usability → www.nngroup.com $
      8. More reports and usability guidelines → www.nngroup.com $
    3. Books
      1. Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed → /homepageusability/
      2. Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity → /jakob/webusability/
      3. Full list of books → www.nngroup.com
    4. Software Product
      1. Check page designs for accessibility as you code → www.nngroup.com $
    5. Consulting Services
      1. Nielsen Norman Group offers → www.nngroup.com $
        1. usability reviews, → www.nngroup.com
        2. keynote speeches, → www.nngroup.com
        3. workshops and seminars, → www.nngroup.com
        4. user testing (international and domestic) → www.nngroup.com
    6. About Jakob Nielsen
      1. Biography and photos → /jakob/
      2. Public appearances → /jakob/showtimes.html
      3. Papers and essays by Jakob Nielsen → /papers/
    7. Jakob’s Picks of Other Stuff
      1. Recommended books about Web design and usability →  /books/
      2. Hotlist of recommended other sites → /hotlist/
    8. About This Site
      1. Why this site has almost no graphics → /about/nographics.html
      2. Portal traffic referral statistics → /about/searchreferrals.html
      3. Copyright and reprint rules → /about/copyright.html
  2. News
    1. New Seminars in November and December
      1. Usability Week 2002 → www.nngroup.com
        1. [Locations]
          1. Boston
          2. New York
          3. London
          4. Silicon Valley
        2. Brand-new tutorials with the results of our latest user research:
          1. Intranets → www.nngroup.com
          2. Flash → www.nngroup.com
          3. Email Newsletters → www.nngroup.com
        3. Usability Week gives you a second chance to catch popular tutorials that were sold out at our last conference:
          1. Usability Lifecycle → www.nngroup.com
          2. Accessibility → www.nngroup.com
          3. Information Architecture (2 days with Lou Rosenfeld) → www.nngroup.com
    2. [Quotes in the Press]
      1. [English]
        1. Daily Press Ailing AOL rediscovers its 35 million members → www.dailypress.com
        2. BBC E-mail makes surfers emotional → news.bbc.co.uk
        3. Wired Reality Check for Web Design → www.wired.com
        4. [Additional quotes...]
      2. Italian
        1. Webusabile Il ruolo degli strumenti semi-automatici nello sviluppo di siti web usabili e accessibili → www.webusabile.it
    3. Full list of interviews → /hotlist/interviews.html
    4. Archive of other news items → /hotlist/spotlight.html
  3. [Contact Information]
    1. Mail: Dr. Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group, 48921 Warm Springs Blvd., Fremont, CA 94539, USA
    2. Contact: nielsen@nngroup.com; Luice Hwang, hwang@nngroup.com, tel. (408) 720-8808
    3. PR agency: Darcy Provo, Antenna Group, darcy@antennagroup.com, tel. (415) 977-1920

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