What do you think of Jakob Nielsen's "Top 10 Mistakes" list(s)? On which points do you agree/disagree with him and why? Do you think usability is important or somewhat overrated? Are there any sites that you've used that you think have bad usability design?

Personally, I disagree with the links should be colored differently when visited. It looks annoying to me (and a bunch of us don't do it). I think that people should be able to remember where the heck they've been if they have any sense of direction, and it doesn't take too long to hit the back button anyway (less time if you know the keyboard shortcuts).

There... an answer. XP

((Umm... that post above by Terrance was done by me too, I forgot I was on his... XD))

This might be due to some caching issue on your computer... maybe you don't cache anything, so your browser never recognizes when something's been visited? Not actually sure if that's how it works. :P

As far as the visited vs non-visited colors are concerned... I suppose it might depend on the site itself. If it's a site on which there are hundreds and hundreds of links (maybe some kind of link archive), then I would prefer a way of telling where I've already been, especially if the sites I end up going to are similar in content.

What bothers me more is when a site uses a non-intuitive visited/nonvisited color scheme. There's this one BitTorrent site that I know of that uses a dark blue for unvisited and the bright medium blue for visited... and that throws me off EVERY time I go to the site. Makes me very angry.