blog usability

When I was researching for the blog design talk I gave at BlogU, I mostly found that I had to adapt general web usability to blogs (easy enough to do), because there wasn’t a whole lot out there on blog usability (surprisingly). So it was nice to come across RSS4Lib’s link to Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten Design Mistakes of which blogs are often guilty. A few of these mistakes are less about bad design and more about bad common sense (e.g.: “forgetting that you write for your future boss” and publishing irregularly), but they’re all lessons worth reminding ourselves of.