A design company created test sites full of super-annoying issues, such as slow load times, auto-play music, and pop-ups, then measured how much each increased people's blood pressure. I've been ...

I tell my clients two things to frame organic search discussions around content and user experience: Search engines want to provide answers to their users in one click or less. If you design your ...

Wow. I am glad to see I am not the only engineer that has trouble with bloatware websites. I have gotten a dozen emails about my editorial on bad website design. I blogged about it here. One reader, ...

Jakob Nielsen probably doesn't like your Web site one bit. It wouldn't be surprising: Nielsen doesn't like most sites. For years the former Sun engineer has been crusading against bad Web design, ...

Bad website user interfaces are perhaps the worst part of the internet: spammy pop-ups designed to trick you, dark patterns that are intentionally misleading, and just plain obtuse design decisions ...

Flash has been described as 99 percent bad because of its tendency to discourage Web site use. Visitors to DistantCorners.com's home page are greeted by a grinning lunatic sprouting mechanical arms ...