August 17th, 2003 by Jemaleddin Cole
Bob Sawyer has started a contest to redesign Jakob Nielsen’s web page. The contest now includes prizes, and is being judged by some serious web design luminaries.
Which is all well and good. But so far the discussion is mostly unprovoked attacks on Jakob himself. His detractors don’t seem to understand that Jakob isn’t a visual designer or that his musings are given with the same gadfly sensibilities that have made other people so popular.
In other words, lay off Jakob. No, he can’t design his way out of a paper bag, but I know I’ve benefitted from his experience. In fact, the one thing I’ve found that people who criticize Jakob have in common is hard-to-use web pages.