I liked how the design team focused on making the content the priority instead of the UI in Google Chrome. When you first launch Google Chrome you notice right away the minimalist interface.

At first I wasn’t sure about the UI in Chrome, but the more I use it the better the experience I’m having over other browsers such Internet Explorer 8.

Users are introduced to Facebook's new home page

On the launch of Facebook’s new home page users are first given an introduction to the home page and it’s new features with simplified graphic and instructional text.

Written text simplifies the intro into three easy steps using action verbs “see”, “access”, and “manage”.

The introduction is a good way to ease the user into the new home page and it’s changes.

Pankaj Kedia, director of Intel’s Global Ecosystems Program for Mobile Internet Devices and Smart Phones, responded to an email question:  “Consumers want to do multiple things at the same time: listen to music while browsing the Web, look for directions while looking at your calendar and talking with your friends, and so on,” -CNET, News

As the tablet race heats up with the announcement of Apple’s iPad, an important feature that could be a difference for users is multitasking. But can users really multitask?

An example of multitasking using technology is using mobile phones while driving. There’s a lot of controversy around this because the use of a mobile phone while driving increases the risk of an accident.

And some laws have been enacted to ban the user of cell phones while driving because drivers exhibit increased impairment over intoxicated drivers.

So even if new tablet devices offer the ability to multitask over Apple’s iPad, can users even handle doing more than one task at a time effectively?

If not, then multitasking is not much of an advantage to have on a tablet device.

Nielsen is a leading web usability consultant who worked at Sun Microsystems (1994 to 1998) to make enterprise software easier to use.

He is also known as the founder for “discount usability engineering” for quick and inexpensive improvements in user interfaces.

Nielsen’s ideas on usability are not without critics, but working in the field of UX you will most certainly run into them.

Jakob Nielsen’s website has a distinct plain look to it with only text and search bar at the top. Nielsen gives reason as to why there is only text and almost no graphics on Use It.com.