August 12, 2003

Jakob on Information Pollution

Information Pollution, the latest Alertbox by Jakob Nielsen is all abut text.
Excessive word count and worthless details are making it harder for people to extract useful information. The more you say, the more people tune out your message.
If users don't need it, don't write it. Quit committing attention theft. Good article.
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