Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  R.I.P. WYSIWYG (10 Oct 2005) If the new interaction style works as well as early predictions indicate, users will quickly expect many other user experiences to provide the power of a results-oriented design. People don't like messing with commands and preference settings on the Web, which is why most customization features fail. It'll therefore be interesting to see how these new ideas translate into environments far beyond Office-like productivity applications. Article URL: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/wysiwyg.html Read 373 more articles from Jakob Nielsen sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Why is corporate communications seen as fluffy?          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy