useit.com — Since my first attempt in 1996, I have compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. See links to all these lists at the bottom of this article. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design.
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vhtradingDec 28, 2006
Interesting that some of you claim his article is nothing but a "wall of text"; but if you would call it that, then you'd have to classify have the articles posted from Digg as that as well. Or are you one of those people that don't RTFA and click on the headlines because it sounds interesting?;-)What he's referring to in #4 is horribly long-winded pages with mile-long paragraphs, no headers to break up the subject matter, and no scannable text summarized with bullet points.
motionblurDec 28, 2006
True. Jakob is usually pretty good about pointing out the actual updates, but not this time...
jsusankaDec 28, 2006
anybody who writes for one browser only whether it be for an intranet or extranet should consider a career change or be fired. you are not doing you company any favors by writing for one browser.
snowwrestlerDec 28, 2006
@n3rrdTake a look at what I just wrote. (@n3rrd) Now take a look at what it says right above this comment field: "Replying to comment by bleutuna (cancel)" Now take a look where the comment field is: at the bottom of the page, nowhere near bleutuna or your post.Want to talk about usability problems? Let's talk about Digg's comment system. Why the hell should we have to use these terrible hacks to talk to each other?? The comment system on Digg is a living example of flash>substance. We get gradient headlines, scrolling "show comment" tricks, and client-side digg incrementing. Unfortunately below the surface what we're stuck with is one-deep threading and mob-rule comment moderation.
jadsDec 28, 2006
No. 11 - Websites that don't validate to standards despite claiming to... hang on a minute
technoboiDec 28, 2006
PDF files do have their place. I often specifically look for PDFs. They are particularly good for product guides and technical manuals etc. They can easily be downloaded and stored them to disk. I have sometimes put some on my Palm for easy reference.Where PDFs fail is for general non-technical sales blurb - then they are usually inappropriate unless they are an alternative to viewing the same information on a standard web page.It is true that some web site search engines are very poor. If the pages are standard html I usually use Google to find the page I want from a named site. If the site is database driven then, if the site search engine is no good, you're stuck.
skotasmaDec 29, 2006
(with horribly bad pale yellow background colors)yep, seen it together with that blue on the start site?ouch...The article itself rather looks like its got no design or CSS or anythingAbout the content: I think he's right about most things.. not that they are MY top 10.What I like for example is a link for the same window and a little icon behind it for a new window.And my personal number one: Text that goes over all of my 21'' screen at 1600x1200.I just can't read that and it forces me to resize the browser window... Newspapers found out about the best text width AGES ago.
psykedDec 29, 2006
Ah, but when i come across a site that looks like that, i don't really care how usable it is, because I assume its a relic from the dawn of the internet, and just, you know, ignore it. Usability should be as much about enticing people to read what they came to read, before they have to look for it. White, Black and Yellow pages with default link colours associate his website with all those old-and-no-longer-updated remnants of Web 0.5 and undermine his status of guru. A usability expert who's website I hate to look at, let alone use?Oh, and US Patents on tooltips? He has several patents on tooltips? Doesn't that belong to the software?
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