Dr Jekyll & Jakob Nielsen

Written By: Ferg on July 27, 2009 Comments

Jakob Nielsen

Web Design is a subjective industry I know, but there are some websites that exceed all boundaries of ‘web propriety’. Recently, I came across a website that would looks like something that Jakob Nielson might have created if he’d gone into politics instead of becoming a Usability Guru.

Now that I think of it, this leads me to wonder what Jakob’s alter-ego might produce if he were in Dr Jekyll’s shoes. What strange metamorphosis would have been unleashed on the world if Jakob had drunk the serum?

It seems reasonable to assume (in a weird hypothetical way) that his alter ego; unrestrained by his usual dogmatic obduracy, would have imposed a frenzied attack on the public by way of a ‘usability monster.’ The result may have been something like this.