Last November, the ReUSEIT competition announced the winners: the best suggestions to how Jakob Nielsen could redesign his less-than good-looking usability site.
What is interesting with the competition is that it is an example of how the same few elements can be laid out differently with very different effects.
CSS Zen Garden is also like that, (well, not today, it's down for the moment) but while some of the graphics are beautiful, the page text isn't very interesting. ReUSEIT uses a real-life example.
(A few years from now, ReUSEIT will also be an excellent example of typical Web design anno 2003. Better take screenshots now.)
By the way, UseIt is not impressively useable for a usability site. For one, Jakob could reshuffle the list of earlie columns and sort by topic, not date. If I am interested in, say, displays, how on earth should I know where to look? Compare with another usability expert, Steve Krug.
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