Digging into usability issues
Recently, got myself into Usability fighting with the redesign of some web applications. The more advanced the project is becoming, the harder it comes to handle usability issues. Finally, it ended up with the full re-design having in mind key concepts from different web sources.
1. Proper Search
If the navigation sucks, it might be the only way how the user can find the required content. Statistically, the user uses search maximum twice, then he leaves the site if he didn’t find anything.
2.Design your Links
It’s quite hard to navigate over the complex website and afterword find yourself on the main page without a guess where you’ve been. So, do mark links as visited!
3. Banner site
With overwhelming number of banners, or any image/text advertisement of different features of the site/sites, do keep “an air” between the blocks, if you want to have lots of info on the front page, otherwise – think again about your content placement. It’s really hard to read something when the rest of the content blinks/flashes/jumps/etc. However, if you have to keep these jumping/flashing block – try to keep them far away from the content and each other.
4. Image data over Text and vice versa
The link is worth of a thousand words
5. And finally, don’t do this!
Yeah, this!


