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Bad Bad Bad UX: 21 Common Mistakes in User Experience
20 plus 1 Common Mistakes in User Experience to Avoid.
20 Great Examples of How You Can Ruin User Experience
Let’s get started! Here they are — the most mistakes in crafting a good experience which even experienced savvy ux’rs can make.
#1 — Supppperrrr Long dropdowns
Have you ever tried to get to the needed item in a dropdown menu when it has to be scrolled?
Long dropdowns can be the shortest way to ruin UX, it can make you want to tear your hair out for sure.
#2— Violation of the flashing image rule
More and more microinteractions and graphics have rapid motion but not a lot have the sense of speed to make sure they are 100% accessible to users who are motion sensitive. Disclaimers and turn off options for motion and flashing images should be a standard practice in UI when these attention grabbing elements are used
#3 — Сhecklists with a large number of cluttered options
Did you know that checklists were originally created so that the user could give a binary yes or no answer? This is not entirely true, there may be more options, but you definitely shouldn’t abuse them.
The example above is painful isn’t it? Don’t use ridiciously long lists
#4 — A mountain of tooltips
Bad tooltip design presents tooltips as redundant and distracting, making them lose all credibility among users. · What else gives tooltips a bad rep?1. They’re hard to spot · # 2. They require effort · # 3. They obscure the screen · # 4. They could be cropped in small screens.
