10 easily avoidable usability crimes

Hopefully no major surprises to web designers and developers in this 10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit, except that one which I think is often ignored these days is maintaining a visual indicator for links that have already been visited. Often, from a visual perspective, having unvisited and visited text links appear in two different colours can look slightly untidy but it’s a valid point that the usability issue of not recognising that you’ve visited a link previously has a potentially greater negative impact on the user experience than the different colours.

7th December 2009

Ben Childs

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