Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005

Summary:

The oldies continue to be goodies — or rather, baddies — in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005.

For this year’s list of worst design mistakes, I decided to try something new: I asked readers of my newsletter to nominate the usability problems they found the most irritating.

I 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. Thus, when you read this year’s top ten list, you’ll probably say, "Yes, I’ve heard about this before." That’s okay.

There’s value in reminding ourselves of past findings and raising their priority on the agenda of things to be fixed. Because these mistakes continue to be so common, it makes sense that people continue to complain about them the most.

Full Story: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html

* Google: Bad Web Design http://www.google.com/search?q=bad+web+design&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

* Yahoo: Bad Web Design http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/search?p=bad+web+design&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8

* MSN: Bad Web Design http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=bad+web+design&FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0

(Many thanks to Brad Feld and his great http://www.feld.com/blog/ for passing this info along. Russ)