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Flash is a programming environment and should be used to offer users additional power and features that are unavailable from a static page. Flash should not be used to jazz up a page. If your content is boring, rewrite text to make it more compelling and hire a professional photographer to shoot better photos. Don't make your pages move. It doesn't increase users' attention, it drives them away; most people equate animated content with useless content.
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Jose RamirezAnnotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.useit.com%2Falertbox%2Fdesignmistakes.html
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Bad fonts won the vote by a landslide
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small font sizes or frozen font sizes; about one-third complained about low contrast between text and background.
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- Make obvious what's clickable: for text links, use colored, underlined text (and don't underline non-link text).
- Differentiate visited and unvisited links.
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- Explain what users will find at the other end of the link, and include some of the key information-carrying terms in the anchor text itself to enhance scannability and search engine optimization (SEO). Don't use "click here" or other non-descriptive link text.
- Avoid JavaScript or other fancy techniques that break standard interaction techniques for dealing with links.
- In particular, don't open pages in new windows (except for PDF files and such).
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predictable navigation and static menus.
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- ontent
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- scannable, and
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- answer users' questions and
- use common language
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The one bright point is that splash screens and Flash intros are almost extinct. They are so bad that even the most clueless Web designers won't recommend them, even though a few (even more clueless) clients continue to request them.
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Guy FawkesSummary: The oldies continue to be goodies -- or rather, baddies -- in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005.
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Andre MalheiroI assumed that asking for reader input would highlight many issues that I hadn't noticed in my own user testing. This was not the case. Instead, all of the top thirty problems were covered in existing usability guidelines.
usability guidelines 2005 list article flash search layout typography link forms
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haraldgroven1. small fonts/fixed font size 2. non-standard links 3. Flash 4. content written for other media 5. bad searchability 6. Not for differet browsers 7. forms w too many fields 8. no contact info 9. Frozen page width 10 no enlargment of photos
usability web webDesign 2005 alertbox nielsen websiteusability fromDelicious
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Leandro RodriguesThe oldies continue to be goodies -- or rather, baddies -- in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005.
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Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
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posavasosThe oldies continue to be goodies -- or rather, baddies -- in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005.
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The oldies continue to be goodies -- or rather, baddies -- in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005.
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