In my dream
he wanted the bathroom.“What’s that smell?”
he said.“A gift,” I said, and gave him
cheap soaphugely wrapped in purple
with a golden bow, no less.How thoughtful. How thoughtless.
Not only splash, but flash. —Rachel McAlpine —Four Dreams about Jakob Nielsen (Quality Web Content)
Jakob Nielsen is a web usability guru. What’s the point of giving someone “cheap soap” in a fancy wrapper? Plenty of web pages have equally flashy veneers, obscuring what little content or functionality they offer.
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