Simon Twigger @ MCW

I really like the general ideas and recommendations that Jakob Nielsen espouses on website and software useability. His useit.com website and the regular Alertbox mailing list are well worth browsing/subscribing to. I came across a page entitled ‘Ten Usability Heuristics‘ today which outlines ten fundamental concepts that should be borne in mind when designing any thing that people interact with. These are particularly relevant to bioinformatics tools and websites where the data being presented is already complicated enough - the user interface should enhance not further obscure the content.