The most common design mistakes
Jakob Nielsen is tracking the usability of web sites for many years now. Now, he’s looking at blogs and he recently published “Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes.” And obviously, this list reminds me that I need to update the design of this blog for several months, a task that I’m postponing day after day by telling me that the contents are more important than the design. But even if it is true, I promise you to change the design of this blog before the end of the year, and in particular to add a short biography and a photo.
So here is this list of the most common design mistakes.
- No Author Biographies
- No Author Photo
- Nondescript Posting Titles
- Links Don’t Say Where They Go
- Classic Hits are Buried
- The Calendar is the Only Navigation
- Irregular Publishing Frequency
- Mixing Topics
- Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
- Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service
And for more details, please read the original article.
