Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:26:47 -0500 From: Bruno Vanasse To: "Cameron Barrett" Cc: "Jakob Nielsen" Subject: humansource.com Re: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 on http://www.camworld.com/ Special Alert: While HumanSource.com sounds like it may be a great site, it sure looks an awful lot like Jakob Nielsen's UseIt.com. [More info coming...] -------- Cameron, As soon as I got the word of the problem on my site from a "charitable" viewer, I took the site off-line for 48 hours to make sure it did not happen again. I was doing a test, like the one Jakob Nielsen proposed in his DevHead article on November 20, 1998 - "How you can test your competitors' website" [ http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2167696,00.html ], on the Intranet at the university Lab with 4 different designs (one looked like www.cmpnet.com , another like www.useit.com , etc.) and similar content for testing on my collegues. The design of www.Useit.com was posted accidentally on the Web. I apologized to Jakob, he accepted, no permanent harm done. I don't think many unsuspecting surfers saw it, it is a new website. Sorry, again. Forgive me for the error. You can, if you wish, post this apology on your site. Anyway, this was never a design intended to be used, sorry. By the way I am not a design expert, this may explain the mishap. Cheers, Bruno ******************************************************** Bruno. Vanasse. Consultant, HumanSource Inc. E-Mail: vanasse@humansource.com WEB: http://humansource.com ********************************************************