{"id":1549,"date":"2011-12-05T22:04:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T08:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2011-12-05T22:04:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T08:04:38","slug":"usability-expert-jakob-nielsen-doesnt-seem-to-like-the-kindle-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/usability-expert-jakob-nielsen-doesnt-seem-to-like-the-kindle-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Usability expert Jakob Nielsen does not like the Kindle Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jakob Nielsen took the Amazon Kindle Fire through its paces and doesn&#8217;t seem all that impressed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/kindle-fire-usability.html\">Kindle Fire Usability Findings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His complaints:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Heavy\n<\/li>\n<li> Lack of physical buttons\n<\/li>\n<li> Miserable magazine reading experience\n<\/li>\n<li> Slow screen updates\n<\/li>\n<li> Bad UI design (e.g., graphic buttons that are too small)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakob Nielsen took the Amazon Kindle Fire through its paces and doesn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[174,4],"tags":[189,243],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-mobile-devices","category-mobile-devices","tag-kindle-fire","tag-tablet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-oZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}