March 1, 201214 yr What do you see on other sites that makes your blood boil and becomes an instant click away? For me a good one is underlining things that are not anchors! It's confusing and just dame right wrong, stop it!
March 1, 201214 yr For me a good one is underlining things that are not anchors! It's confusing and just dame right wrong, stop it! this rubbish comments like "this site works best in <insert browser>" or "optimised for".
March 1, 201214 yr Author this Exactly! Another good one Strike through text for fashionable reasons NO!
March 1, 201214 yr There's a lot of things that annoy me. One of the biggest is average/crap web design propped up by incredible photography, not taken by the person who built the site. People look at a template and think it's brilliant, but the reality is remove the images and it's nonsense.
March 1, 201214 yr Author There's a lot of things that annoy me. One of the biggest is average/crap web design propped up by incredible photography, not taken by the person who built the site. People look at a template and think it's brilliant, but the reality is remove the images and it's nonsense. In the same league (but maybe the complete opposite) i've had loads of clients (photographers etc) that turn down a well designed site (well in my humble opinion ) in favour of a rubbish design that is just the photos.
March 1, 201214 yr Here's a few off the top of my head: Comic Sans & Papyrus Centred text Sidebars to the left of content Capitals forced into italic Standard caps used in place of small caps Anachronistic titling figures Body text at below 12px - we're not all at 800*600 any more Inadequate leading Inadequate margins sIFR or Cufon used where @font-face would work Edited March 1, 201214 yr by Renaissance-Design Thought of more.
March 1, 201214 yr Pretentiousness. This industry is rife with smarmy, smug individuals. The thing I hate most is the introductory headlines designers/developers write on their personal sites.
March 1, 201214 yr Pretentiousness. This industry is rife with smarmy, smug individuals. The thing I hate most is the introductory headlines designers/developers write on their personal sites. Oops.
March 1, 201214 yr 'W3C Validated' logos "My name is..... and I <insert blah blah pretentious nonsense that may have looked cool once on one site>"
March 1, 201214 yr Author Oops. Haha but it's so hard not to! It's what clients expect. My next tag line will be... "You wanna website bruv? Good price yeah."
March 1, 201214 yr Oops. The difference is, I believe you. I really shouldn't be in this thread, I'm gonna find it hard to stop. I'm going to start raging about the Lobster font in a minute.
March 1, 201214 yr Haha but it's so hard not to! It's what clients expect. To be fair, I did my research beforehand and response was overwhelmingly positive except from other designers. The difference is, I believe you. I really shouldn't be in this thread, I'm gonna find it hard to stop. I'm going to start raging about the Lobster font in a minute. Feel free to weigh in on any of my list. Some of them really p*** me off, be nice to know I'm not alone. Edited March 1, 201214 yr by Renaissance-Design
March 1, 201214 yr Author Feel free to weigh in on any of my list. Some of them really p*** me off, be nice to know I'm not alone. Centred text.should.die ...but not as much as justified, i had a client a few months back that insisted on it. It's the first time i've refused something haha
March 1, 201214 yr Centred text.should.die ...but not as much as justified, i had a client a few months back that insisted on it. It's the first time i've refused something haha That's context-sensitive. I've used justified a couple of times when it seemed called for (eg, newspaper-inspired layout). So sometimes it's justified...
March 1, 201214 yr Whilst we are at it, could somebody kindly explain the point of dribbble to me? Especially the three bs. Wtf. Edit: I have another. People think that subtle design is an alternative for "no contrast" or "nearly invisible". Edited March 1, 201214 yr by brightonmike
March 1, 201214 yr Author Whilst we are at it, could somebody kindly explain the point of dribbble to me? Especially the three bs. Wtf. Edit: I have another. People think that subtle design is an alternative for "no contrast" or "nearly invisible". I think that may be the epitome of your 'Pretentious' pet hate.
March 1, 201214 yr Edit: I have another. People think that subtle design is an alternative for "no contrast" or "nearly invisible". *ahem*
March 1, 201214 yr Author Edit: I have another. People think that subtle design is an alternative for "no contrast" or "nearly invisible". Generally, because of my poor eyesight, my stuff is usually quite contrasted. I'd also like to point out that i'm probably guilty of most of these at some point in my career
March 1, 201214 yr I'd also like to point out that i'm probably guilty of most of these at some point in my career Oh man, me too. The number of times I've gotten annoyed by bad typography or lack of contrast, then realised I've been guilty of the same is humbling.
March 1, 201214 yr Auto-starting videos and those "Give us feedback about the site" pop-ups that appear within 5 seconds of your first visit. Oh and websites with a "Quick login" bar at the top of the page but the place-holder JS for it at the bottom so by the time you're halfway through typing your username the page fully loads and it gets replaced with "Username"... Edited March 1, 201214 yr by Spitfire
March 1, 201214 yr Author Automatic 'Mobile sites' where design, features and content is sacrificed with no way to get to the desktop version. (IPB i'm talking to you!) Hopefully the responsive movement will kill this one.
March 1, 201214 yr Auto-starting videos and those "Give us feedback about the site" pop-ups that appear within 5 seconds of your first visit. If enough people filled in their feedback as "I f****** hate those intrusive survey popups"...
March 1, 201214 yr Author sIFR or Cufon used where @font-face would work ...even when both of those add stupid weight to page. Also... decorative fonts used for main body text... WTF is the point in having content if i can't read it?
March 1, 201214 yr My pet hate is people proclaiming to be web designers who have no grasp of typography. Incredibly long lines of text in a tiny font with default line spacing. And centred text. MAKES ME MAD I TELLS YA! And those worse-than-useless headlines that web designers use because they lack the imagination to do anything with words that they didn't copy from a .net magazine tutorial. Hi, my name's Groovy Designz and I'm passionate about masturbation.... etc Here's another one. Using fancy flash/ js because they can, even when it doesn't suit the project, or decreases usability. Ooh I feel much better now! Namaste mofos!
March 1, 201214 yr People that put the toilet paper on the holder so that the loose sheet is at the back... and the proclaimers Edited March 1, 201214 yr by 4colourprogress
March 1, 201214 yr Some of these have already been mentioned: Comic Sans, Papyrus, Lobster and the massive overuse of Museo. Small body copy (and the insistence that 'corporate' sites need 11px body copy and 13px headlines) Display faces used for body copy Abused leading / kerning / tracking Ignored leading / kerning / tracking Splash screens or intro pages Auto-playing music or video with sound Lack of white space in a design Inconsistent margins Things that look clickable when they aren't (and the opposite) Sites that rely entirely on fancy jQuery animations and otherwise lack substance Justified text. Centered text I can get on board with in certain situations. But left-aligned is where it's at. Anything that changes the way usability conventions behave Tag clouds Man... I must come across far angrier than I actually am... Good to know there are people out there who share a fair number of these with me.
March 1, 201214 yr People that put the toilet paper on the holder so that the loose sheet is at the back... and the proclaimers Oh heck I thought it was just me,with the toilet paper thing. Edited March 1, 201214 yr by GalaxyTramp
March 1, 201214 yr I'm a Museo abuser. Well, I use it. But only for my headings. (And I could give it up anytime I want)
March 1, 201214 yr People that read CSS3 tutorials, then whinge that the demo doesn't work in IE7. I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for browser compatibility sympathy, I can tell you I don't have any. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you stop whinging that CSS3 demos do not work in old browsers now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. Edited March 1, 201214 yr by brightonmike
March 1, 201214 yr Author I expect to see some SEO outfit spamming a therapy site real soon... Then i shall track them down and lead them on for as long as possible to waste their time.
March 1, 201214 yr People who can't correctly pad their content i.e. text tantalising close to a margin or other element makes me want to tweak it for them - cue me loading Firebug just to see how much better it could look!
March 1, 201214 yr Author OK i know it's not directly web design based and more client hate but... i hate clients that want me to build in the option of being able to change their body font themselves. I can't ever imagine a good use for this.
March 1, 201214 yr Author People who can't correctly pad their content i.e. text tantalising close to a margin or other element makes me want to tweak it for them - cue me loading Firebug just to see how much better it could look! Totally. The other way round too.
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