[thelist] penitent or smartass?

David,

Very interesting article. In general I agree with the conclusions Yoshi 
makes. However, I think that it should be obvious that you don't have to be 
Yahoo to be well designed and accessible. But his points are being made by 
more and more people as time progresses. Ease of use -- geared towards your 
specific audience -- should be consideration #1, and it's easy to forget 
that (and sometimes it's very difficult to convince the powers-that-be of 
its importance).

Thanks for sharing the letter. I think he was penitent.

Marlene

<tip type="usability">
Jakob Nielsen's latest book is out (Designing Web Usability), and I think 
it's worth the $27US (via Amazon) for those of you who have no other book 
addressing this topic.
</tip>

At 09:16 AM 1/21/00 -0900, McCreath_David wrote:
>Anybody looked at Word.com lately?
>
>http://word.com/
>
>Read the "Letter from the Art Director"
>
>http://word.com/yhome/artdirector.html
>
>Half of me wants to raise my fist in solidarity, the other half wants to
>smirk self-consiously and say "Oh...I knew what you meant...right from the
>beginning...I think..."