POWERPOINT IS 99% BAD was Re: [Sigia-l] Macromedia and Jakob Nielsen team up ?

[Peter Merholz]

Dear SIGIA-Ellers,

I'm hear to write to you that PowerPoint, Microsoft's industry-leading tool
for corporate presentations, is 99% bad. It encourages laziness,
incompleteness, time-wasting, and a lack of depth.

I now await Microsoft's offer of many thousands of dollars to have me
"consult" on how to improve PowerPoint.

Thank you,

--peter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Fahey [askrom]" <askROM at graphpaper.com>
To: "'sigia-l'" <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: [Sigia-l] Macromedia and Jakob Nielsen team up ?


> How much do you think Macromedia was willing to pay to silence Jakob
> Nielsen's anti-Flash tirades? We may never know, but I wonder how much
> loot NNG makes from deals like this:
>
> http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/macromedia_nielsen.ht
> ml
>
> While deals like this make me question the ethics of the whole usability
> consulting industry (there is *no* direct evidence of impropriety, but
> it's absurdly easy to imagine that this relationship is just mutual
> backscratching), I can't hep but be glad - perhaps this relationship
> will benefit us all in the end: First, Nielsen might stop his
> under-informed and over-influential bashing of Flash. Second, Nielsen
> may actually help macromedia improve the usability of their products.
>
> -Cf
>
> [christopher eli fahey]
> art: http://www.graphpaper.com
> sci: http://www.askrom.com
> biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com
>
>
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