I might second Michael Gibson's concerns about the use of Flash and what I might call serious technological usability problems. However, if a complaint about font size is as deep as the commentary gets, I wonder even more how a man associated with http://www.nngroup.com/ or more loosely with http://www.useit.com/ is seriously advising -anyone- about web design is odd.
Yeah, Don, the type is slightly small. I'm nearly your age and had no trouble reading it plus I could--with the magical press of a button--enlarge things. [Ain't technology great?] And despite my advanced age, I still have the cognitive facilities to realize that the site was aimed at someone slightly younger than I am. I taught at UC Davis for a year more than a dozen years ago so don't have a dog in any fight about their current website but I wonder what Don or others would hold up as an ideal for a site for a program like the one at Davis. The slightly less intensely boring than the sites listed above http://www.jnd.org/ perhaps?
Seriously, this is the level of design criticism we get on this list? Gratuitous insults devoid of any questions about intent? Standards presumed but unspoken, letting people lost in the World Wide Web of 1997 whine because they don't make 'em like they used to?
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