Bad Design (12 links)
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Discussions of unusable designs to help you see your own problems.
How not to make your site accessible
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/us-cranky1.html
Topic:
Accessibility (19)
Destination: IBM (9)
Author:
Seebach, Peter (2)
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March 28, 2001
When Web pages don't work
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/web-work.html
Five steps to improve user experience.
The Prime Evils of user-experience design:
- Confusing navigation and unexpected behaviors
- Slow response time
- Bleeding-edge technologies
- Poor (or omitted) user testing
- Off-the-cuff design services
Destination: IBM (9)
Author:
Paul, Chris (1)
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October 23, 2000
Repent from Flash Sins
http://smw.internet.com/symm/voices/flashsins/
Today's Flash is like the green shag rug from the 70s.
Four Flash sins listed:
- The "Hidden" Button
- Annoying Audio and Graphics
- Failing to Test
- But It's Art Dammit!
Topic:
Multimedia (12)
Author:
Kennedy, Tim (1)
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May 10, 2000
Why Good Design Comes from Bad Design
http://uiweb.com/issues/issue08.htm
Destination: uiweb (6)
Author:
Berkun, Scott (6)
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April 1, 2000
Mystery Meat Navigation
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/badnavigation.html
Rollovers for navigation make web pages that suck.
Vincent Flanders defines a term for Javascript rollovers as navigation elements and explains why this is bad. Links to a lot of MMN sites are included, and Vincent even takes jabs at the designers themselves this time.
From webpagesthatsuck.com.
Topics:
Dynamic HTML (3),
Navigation (14)
Destination: Web Pages that Suck (1)
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January 8, 2000
When Bad Design Elements Become the Standard
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991114.html
When to follow a common design, even if it is bad.
Destination: Alertbox (101)
Author:
Nielsen, Jakob (116)
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November 19, 1999
How to make an Annoying Web Page
http://www.users.nac.net/falken/annoying/main.html
Attract annoying users with these annoying tips.
Of course, you could break every rule here, if you wanted to be easy-to-use instead:
- Text and More Text
- Graphics
- Backgrounds
- Animated Gifs
- Bullets
- Bars
- Music
- Java
- Frames
- Links
- Copying other Web Pages
- Cookie Cutter Web Page Design
- One Word: Stupidity
- Misleading Content
- Quizzes and Surveys
- Counters
Includes 'The Annoying Web Page Award'.
July 10, 1999
The Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html
Destination: Alertbox (101)
Author:
Nielsen, Jakob (116)
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May 30, 1999
"Top Ten Mistakes" Revisited Three Years Later
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990502.html
Destination: Alertbox (101)
Author:
Nielsen, Jakob (116)
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May 2, 1999
An Interview with Vincent Flanders
http://msdn.microsoft.com/libr ... en-us/dnsiteplan/html/wpts.asp
Topic:
Interviews (15)
Destination: MSDN (4)
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August 19, 1998
Web Ugly
http://msdn.microsoft.com/libr ... _voices_hess/html/hess0220.asp
Destination: MSDN (4)
Author:
Hess, Robert (1)
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February 27, 1997
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
Common errors that make Web sites hard to use.
May 1996 Alertbox. The errors are:
- Frames
- Bleeding-edge technology
- Over animation
- Complex URLs
- Orphan pages
- Long pages
- No navigation support
- Link colors
- Outdated information
- Slow
Destination: Alertbox (101)
Author:
Nielsen, Jakob (116)
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May 7, 1996
