Re-Useit Design Contest

15 August 2003

Today Bob Sawyer announces the Re-Useit Design Contest. The name of the game is to redesign Jakob Nielsen’s useit.com.

Design a usable, intuitive layout and navigation, organize the content with usability in mind, and create a work of art which still reflects the importance and influence of Nielsen’s work.

Basically, it’s a chance to show that usable design isn’t necessarily dull design, and what better way to demonstrate it. Bob has asked me to sit on the judges panel for the contest, so I’m looking forward to seeing the results.

- Drew McLellan

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§ Mr Bo Jangles: Well, all I can say is that its about time. I’m glad I’m not the only one that thinks poor old Jacob’s site is an absolute shocker - it gives ’usability’ and CSS a bad name.
Unfortunately, Mr Jacob has already signaled that he is unlikely to take up any of the suggestions - why doesn’t this surprise!
§ owen: I always thought use it sucks anyhow. and if it didn’t suck he wouldn’t have been changing it. having a very good usuablity means your site’s design should suck.

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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