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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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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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Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
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Zach HarkeyAgain, only a fool would ignore this advice.
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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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David JenningsJakob Nielsen sets himself up as the 'conscience' of what might be called purist web design.
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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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Miren Berasategiin Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
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This year's list of top problems clearly proves the need to get back to Web design basics. There's much talk about new fancy "Web 2.0" features on the Internet industry's mailing lists and websites, as well as at conferences. But users don't care about technology and don't especially want new features. They just want quality improvements in the basics:
text they can read;
content that answers their questions;
navigation and search that help them find what they want;
short and simple forms (streamlined registration, checkout, and other workflow); and
no bugs, typos, or corrupted data; no linkrot; no outdated content.
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