Usability expert Jakob Nielsen does not like the Kindle Fire

Jakob Nielsen took the Amazon Kindle Fire through its paces and doesn’t seem all that impressed.

Kindle Fire Usability Findings

His complaints:

  • Heavy
  • Lack of physical buttons
  • Miserable magazine reading experience
  • Slow screen updates
  • Bad UI design (e.g., graphic buttons that are too small)

My take based on a brief (about an hour) use of the Kindle Fire is that it is a pretty good tablet experience for the price ($200). I would recommend it to people who don’t want to spent $500 or more for an iPad. The Kindle Fire may be the best Android tablet available at the moment in my opinion.