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Usability for beginners

Welcome to our insightful tutorial, “Usability for beginners”. We’ll start today with a fairly simple rule… Just don’t put your content upside down!

Mediamarkt usability

Electronics outlet Mediamarkt offers its promotion catalog as a PDF file. You can read it online as well with some kind of fancy flash tool.

But, in reality, ‘readable’ is a bit of an overstatement since half of the pages are upside down :-) .

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2 Comments on “Usability for beginners”

  1. Arne Says:
    May 27th, 2006 at 14:15

    At least media market should know the difference between printed and on-line media. They probably expect you to turn your monitor upside down.

  2. fl0blog » Blog Archive » Usability for beginners, part 2 - Floris Lambrechts Says:
    July 24th, 2006 at 0:18

    [...] I had bookmarked gmail’s login page, so that I wouldn’t have to go through all of their redirects. At one point, the field ‘username’ (Dutch: Gebruikersnaam) was replaced with its Norwegian translation, Brukernavn. See also: rule number one. Explore posts in the same categories: Web stuff, English, Usability [...]

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