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Usability Problems Users Hate Most

By Wired Blogs June 16, 2006 Categories: Visual Design

InfoWorld has posted an interesting news item about the web annoyances that users hate most. The article is based on an interview with Theresa Cunnington, a usability consultant from iFocus.

Theresa’s points are fairly straightforward — they read like the “big five” web usability problems, and they shouldn’t be news to you — but the problems she outlines still persist on today’s web. You’d think people would have figured this stuff out a long time ago. Here’s the breakdown:

1. Invasive advertising
2. Difficult navigation
3. “Leap of Faith” links
4. Flashing page elements
5. Long, text-heavy pages

For more on the biggest web usability “No Nos,” check out the book excerpt from “Prioritizing Web Usability” that we ran on Webmonkey earlier this week. The book was written by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger of the Nielsen Norman Group. In the chapter on our site, they cover the eight major web usability problems that haven’t changed.

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