Still making those old web mistakes
Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen publishes his annual Top Ten Web Design Mistakes for this year. His Summary: The oldies continue to be goodies -- or rather, baddies -- in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005.
This time round he asked for Alertbox newsletter reader views. While I didn't submit mine, I certainly agree with 'bad fonts' or text legibility problems as the top by a mile. This appears to be actually getting worse with voluntary sector sites, with low contrast text increasingly appearing after revamps, such as the recent NCVO one. I have my browser (Firefox) set to override small text sizes (leading to some interesting layouts) but it is pretty impossible to anticipate stupid colour combinations.
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)