If you work with a client long term or are part of their internal team chances are you will see a number of redesigns of a site.
Over the years I have come to question why we constantly redesign things every few years. It’s usually a change in directional branding, a facelift. As if a website is just a fashion accessory that must be changed as the trend of the season passes by.
Problem is to often I see the same mistakes being made time and time again. The same old issues reoccur, as the central cause; lack of audience conversation and engagement is ignored.
When you use an interface it’s the little things that help make it either a pain or just outstanding.
Sadly, too often we have to put up with the bad interfaces.
In light of this I will from time to time be producing a few articles focusing on specifics of bad interface design and implementation practices.
First one off the ranks is date fields and calendar pickers.
This interface element never really seems to work the way you want it to. Making the overall experience very frustrating.
There seems to be a trend of late to take the minimialisation of interactive design to the extreme. Now I’m all or minimialisation and making user interfaces simipler.
You know making an interface streamlined to just the solid functionality of the interaction and no more.
I have been noticing a very frightening tread. In an effort to make things more usable, we are designing interfaces without the very functions used to support usability in the first place.
Tagged: bestpractice, designreview, interaction design, interface, ixd, minimal, minimialisation, professional development, ui, usability, ux
