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The Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999 (nngroup.com)
8 points by doitLP on May 2, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



These ones are especially relevant now:

> 1. Breaking or Slowing Down the Back Button

Thanks to people who like implementing Javascript frameworks but have no idea how to make them work properly. Then again, many also seem to break the whole page loading aspect too, for much the same reason (hey Wikia).

> 6. Moving Pages to New URLs

Seriously, this seems to be a thing every news site under the planet does, despite said content not changing all that much. Why? Why keep breaking things every few weeks or so? 301 redirects exist for a reason.

> 8. Jumping at the Latest Internet Buzzword

Oh hey, now it's 'cloud', 'blockchain' and 'PWA'. Either way, this tendency is especially common on news sites, whose web developers seem to think they're working at NASA (or maybe Google).

> 10. Anything That Looks Like Advertising

Looks at those newsletter sign up modals


Still 100% relevant nearly 20 years later.


> "Animation avoidance makes users ignore areas with blinking or flashing text or other aggressive animations."

I will say that there's a part of me that thinks the deprecation of blink and marquee was a mistake. I kind of miss those sometimes. It's a very small part, mind you, but still.


Marquee still renders in Chrome, and possibly others, which I can't help but imagine is an easter egg by the devs!




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