Comments on: Top user experience annoyances http://www.webdirections.org/blog/top-user-experience-annoyances/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:54:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Leah Macleanhttp://www.webdirections.org/blog/top-user-experience-annoyances/comment-page-1/#comment-8089 Leah Maclean Wed, 28 May 2008 07:55:48 +0000 http://www.webdirections.org/?p=489#comment-8089 My big hates are auto sound and the Over The Page ads. Also hate the splash page where you have to wait for it to load and there's no way to skip their lovely piece of branding - I want information not proof that the designer is very clever. My big hates are auto sound and the Over The Page ads. Also hate the splash page where you have to wait for it to load and there’s no way to skip their lovely piece of branding — I want information not proof that the designer is very clever.

]]> By: maxinehttp://www.webdirections.org/blog/top-user-experience-annoyances/comment-page-1/#comment-8049 maxine Tue, 27 May 2008 23:41:47 +0000 http://www.webdirections.org/?p=489#comment-8049 Yeah, sound is probably my number 1. If I am hearing sound when I haven't just clicked to play a video or audio track ...... I am reaching for the close button.Anything that scrolls in Flash always sucks. It goes too fast, it goes to slow, I have no idea where I am. Yuck. My browser has a perfectly good scroll bar with whom I have a very good relationship - why mess with that? Yeah, sound is probably my number 1. If I am hearing sound when I haven’t just clicked to play a video or audio track .….. I am reaching for the close button.

Anything that scrolls in Flash always sucks. It goes too fast, it goes to slow, I have no idea where I am. Yuck. My browser has a perfectly good scroll bar with whom I have a very good relationship — why mess with that?

]]> By: johnhttp://www.webdirections.org/blog/top-user-experience-annoyances/comment-page-1/#comment-7963 john Tue, 27 May 2008 07:02:32 +0000 http://www.webdirections.org/?p=489#comment-7963 Excellent suggestions Cheryl! Sound is HUGE one for sure, and of course, the reason why ads are increasingly intrusive is - wait for it - no one wants to see them. Now of course, ads can work - after all, Google's revenue is essentially all ads - but they make intelligent decisions about where to put those ads. Excellent suggestions Cheryl! Sound is HUGE one for sure, and of course, the reason why ads are increasingly intrusive is — wait for it — no one wants to see them. Now of course, ads can work — after all, Google’s revenue is essentially all ads — but they make intelligent decisions about where to put those ads.

]]> By: Cherylhttp://www.webdirections.org/blog/top-user-experience-annoyances/comment-page-1/#comment-7962 Cheryl Tue, 27 May 2008 06:52:18 +0000 http://www.webdirections.org/?p=489#comment-7962 OTP ads (over the page) - you know those annoying as hell ones that the SMH and other news sites use? Once the page loads, you're happily reading away when an offensive ad (usually with sound) takes over the whole screen and only has a tiny 2x2 pixel "close" button so you're captive for 15 seconds - and if you miss the close button you're taken to the splash page for the ad.In my evil days of working in online advertising (sorry!) everyone always went off about how effective they are - I kept arguing they were only effective as the clickthroughs were people like me looking for the close button but unfortunately for me they were actually effective - people went through to purchase.Sound is another big one. I hate hate hate it. Don't automatically assume I want sound effects or music or whatever else you're using to funk up your site. OTP ads (over the page) — you know those annoying as hell ones that the SMH and other news sites use? Once the page loads, you’re happily reading away when an offensive ad (usually with sound) takes over the whole screen and only has a tiny 2x2 pixel “close” button so you’re captive for 15 seconds — and if you miss the close button you’re taken to the splash page for the ad.

In my evil days of working in online advertising (sorry!) everyone always went off about how effective they are — I kept arguing they were only effective as the clickthroughs were people like me looking for the close button but unfortunately for me they were actually effective — people went through to purchase.

Sound is another big one. I hate hate hate it. Don’t automatically assume I want sound effects or music or whatever else you’re using to funk up your site.

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