Comments on: 9 Usability And UX Pitfalls: Learn How To Avoid Them

By: Free Yoville Game Card

Free Yoville Game Card — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:08:02 +0000

Wow, incredible weblog layout! How long have you been blogging for? you made blogging look easy. The total glance of your website is great, as neatly as the content!

By: Anand

Anand — Wed, 25 May 2011 10:15:53 +0000

Poor content & poor design can be the two very important things which everyone shall take care while making or designing a website.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:34:11 +0000

Great article

Really enjoyed reading it, which is novel and nice!

I agree with almost everything you say, just gotta get my boss on the same page!

By: Jacob Creech

Jacob Creech — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:48:43 +0000

Hi Onno,

I completely agree with you about the Dell solution, and I don’t know why they haven’t gone with that approach.

The other issue I see is with not clearly letting people know about just how many steps they have left to complete the process – it just seems never ending when they start offering you all the different hardware and software configuration options. Maybe an an option for standard users and advanced users would help deal with this one.

By: Onno

Onno — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:23:17 +0000

Excelent post! But about the ‘too many options’ at the Dell site: sometimes I want all those options because I have specific needs. I think both the Apple dogma (keep it simple, just a few options) and the Dell one (lot’s of configuration options) have a place. It’s just for different public. Best solution for Dell would of course be to present just a few OS options and a “show me more options…” link.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:51:35 +0000

Thank you for this – I found the thing about About pages particularly interesting.

With regard to your first points about navigation – having ‘action-led’ navigation can help usability. People come to your site to do something so it’s good to have those ‘doing’ words in the nav where you can – eg ‘Adopt a puppy’ is better than ‘Adoption’; ‘Find a store’ better than ‘Store locator’. ‘Contact us’ is a classic example of action-led navigation.

[PS - I just got Item 9 trying to submit this comment - bad request.]

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:50:18 +0000

Thank you for this – I found the thing about About pages particularly interesting.

By: dejunky

dejunky — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:46:25 +0000

Hey Jacob, thanks for the nice comment. I’ll try out your recommendations.

Cheers.

By: Jordan Walker

Jordan Walker — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:12:35 +0000

Great read, very interesting.

By: Jacob Creech

Jacob Creech — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:53:09 +0000

Thanks very much! Glad you liked the article.