- No author biographies: No author biography here. Not really because author identity would be very big secret but because I don't think advertising my usability experience or publications in this blog would contribute very much to the actual posts.
- No author photo: No author photo here either because I don't think it is necessary in other than consultant blogs.
- Nondescript posting titles: This is hard one to evaluate but I try to keep the post titles descriptive though sometimes attempting to add some dry humor into appropriate titles.
- Links don't say where they go: Shouldn't be a problem here since links have long descriptions.
- Classic hits are buried: This is not quite yet applicable here since this blog is not very old and there really isn't yet any classical golden posts of infinite wisdom to be promoted. Lets wait one year and see if there are any particular posts that attract attention.
- The calendar is the only navigation: Labels and search are also navigation aids here so this shouldn't be a problem here.
- Irregular publishing frequency: So far it has been post per day, but o guarantees are given for that posting frequency. There are so many things in the field of usability to talk about and of course world is full of examples of bad usability to point fingers at, but there is also life outside blogging. There will be notification before expected longer hiatus.
- Mixing topics: No topics are mixed here, though usability is wide and high field so you can expect posts ranging from theoretical papers to game usability and beyond. If it is about usability, it belongs here. But you will not likely find cookie recipes or lolcat pictures here, unless they can somehow be related to usability.
- Forgetting that you write for your future boss: No big secrets here and an usability advocate writing about usability shouldn't be very shocking finding for any future boss.
- Having a domain name owned by weblog service: Guilty as charged in this account, but using Blogger as blogging service gives enough flexibility with relative ease of use (usability problems in Blogger are a topic of some other post) and building a dedicated blog of my own would not be worth the hassle.
Commentary on top 10 blog usability mistakes - is usabilityspot usable?
Now that we have gone through all of the top 10 blog usability mistakes list by Jakob Nielsen (2005) it is time for the mandatory "how would this usability blog do when evaluated using this list of usability criterion" -evaluation. So without further ado, lets see how does this usabilityspot blog do when compared against these blog usability mistakes, salted with some commentary to add flavor:
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