Authors:
Elizabeth Buie, Kathy Gill
Politics as Usual: The Race of the Websites Republicans and Democrats routinely hold marketing-style focus groups, but I'll bet that neither of their website design firms consulted either voters or usability professionals before launching the August 2000 versions of the U.S. presidential candidate websites. In a usability review of these sites, I found common flaws as well as notable differences. The Al Gore site (www.algore.com) and the George W. Bush site (www.georgewbush.com) share an important defect: Visited and nonvisited links are the same color, so the sites fail to give visitors feedback on what they have and have not…
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