Alertbox’s 10 Best Application UIs… um…

Jakob Nielson’s Alertbox has a post of the Year’s 10 Best Application UIs.

It does, however, seem like seem weak user experience not to include any actual images of said interfaces or explain what made them so great. In fact, about 70% of the post highlights other good UI techniques and observation from the past year.

So, the lesson here?

• Actually show what you’re talking about. It makes you more convincing.

(To be fair, there’s a $98 report available but I’m pretty confident you could still give away some free samples of the product without damaging sales.)