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08/22/2001 "no pain, no gain"

I don't know how I missed Whipping Users into Shape , but it's a hoot...

"Ease of use is out. Design your sites to be hard to use. Hard to navigate. Hard to access. Here's a little gem of advice: Use dark colors on dark backgrounds. Winnow out the deadbeat Web surfer chaff."

And although there are so many things wrong with this gem I ran out of fingers and toes counting them, he challenges some assumptions that desperately need to be challenged, such as the model of the user as channel surfer.

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