This is an interesting fossil of an extinct branch of UI. Mobile touch UI fulfilled a small number of these suggested changes, and mostly for good reasons:
1. UI has been sliding toward metaphor and abstraction, away from "reality" because aping reality on a screen doesn't work.
2. Direct manipulation is good, and it got better with touch. Babies grok it. So can your PHB. Apps need more of it.
3. Ever eat in China? Several spoken languages. Menus have pictures and you can point if you don't share a spoken language with the waiter. This works. It is often faster than using voice assistants and commands.
4. He gets this one right: consistency is overrated. Be instantly learnable and explorable. OTOH Android is trying to bring a dress code to the bazaar.
5. OK, good. WYSIWYG has given way to a "reflow" compromise. Nobody think in terms of printed pages anymore. BUT Nielsen's love for XML-based markups is weird. They all suck and I have the scars, from O'Reilly's book production workflow, to prove it.
6. Nielsen gets this the most right. Anticipation of user needs suffuses modern mobile OSs.
OK, and so on... I also think he gets modelessness wrong. Give you boss vi. "It's really good, I use it all the time." See how that works out for you.
1. UI has been sliding toward metaphor and abstraction, away from "reality" because aping reality on a screen doesn't work.
2. Direct manipulation is good, and it got better with touch. Babies grok it. So can your PHB. Apps need more of it.
3. Ever eat in China? Several spoken languages. Menus have pictures and you can point if you don't share a spoken language with the waiter. This works. It is often faster than using voice assistants and commands.
4. He gets this one right: consistency is overrated. Be instantly learnable and explorable. OTOH Android is trying to bring a dress code to the bazaar.
5. OK, good. WYSIWYG has given way to a "reflow" compromise. Nobody think in terms of printed pages anymore. BUT Nielsen's love for XML-based markups is weird. They all suck and I have the scars, from O'Reilly's book production workflow, to prove it.
6. Nielsen gets this the most right. Anticipation of user needs suffuses modern mobile OSs.
OK, and so on... I also think he gets modelessness wrong. Give you boss vi. "It's really good, I use it all the time." See how that works out for you.