prioritizing web usability

Well, I just finished a 4-hour brain-dump about Jakob Nielsen's book, and I'd rather not rehash it here. More about it in Tuesday's class.

But what I will observe, having just turned my InDesign document to a .pdf with some interactive links, is how the "gulf of execution" we learned about in class is very much in evidence in the print-to-web world. InDesign allows capturing weblinks for export into Acrobat, which actually knows what to do with them, but it's nowhere near as simple or elegant as it is to add a hyperlink in Blogger or other online tools. I found the "cognitive load" involved in getting the interactive tools to work gave me a three-Advil headache.

One word: blech.