99 Ways to Make Your Website Useless
27May09
After wasting my life educating myself for hours upon hours, and reviewing thousands of websites over the past ten years or so, I figured it was about time to consolidate my findings and educate others who may not have time in their schedules to do what I have done: Learned What Not To Do.
This is the first of a series of posts entitled “Ways To Make Your Website Useless”. You can probably tell from the tone I’m using that I don’t recommend doing anything on this list. Zip, ziltch, nada.
Remember, bad website design ultimately costs more than good website design, regardless of the price tag. Lo varato sale caro. (The cheap comes out expensive) – translate to any language of your choice.
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One Comment
I completely agree, nothing will make me leave a page faster than the artsy/craftsy navigation style. While it’s nice for personal art experiments, nothing is more frustrating blindly clicking on random objects hoping it will take you to some information. I generally like to put the meat of the matter up front on the page. Ultimately, it all goes back to what we learned from Wucious Wong about Design, and that is DESIGN EMPHASIZES PRODUCT. Every element of a design emphasizes or supports the main theme or idea. If it doesn’t do that, then the design has failed.