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

[Anne Hjortshoj]

Well, if your opinions on PowerPoint had the power to affect sales,
Microsoft would be well advised to (a) listen to them and (b) make an
effort to get you to stop badmouthing their product. The nice way to do
both would be to form an alliance where both of you would benefit, a la
Nielsen and Macromedia.

I'm not sure where the "impropriety" is in this alliance, by the way,
unless people are assuming that Macromedia will not respond to Nielsen's
suggestions, and will simply pay him to not write about Flash anymore. 

Macromedia has a very strong incentive to address Nielsen's concerns.
Here's hoping that it turns out to be a constructive alliance.

-Anne

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Peter Merholz wrote:

> 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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