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If you’ve ever emitted a primal scream, pounded your keyboard or let out a frustrated “What the f*&k?!!??” you’ve experienced site architorture.

But, most of the time, it’s not even as dramatic as that.

What is “site architorture”?

1. It’s information that is buried with no clear direction on how to find it
2. It’s a non-consistent look & feel that invites suspicion and eats away at credibility
3. It’s multiple and needless clicks
4. It’s not prioritizing information through a clear visual hierarchy
5. It’s bucking convention for the sake of bucking convention
6. It’s counter-intuitive arrangement of information
7. It’s not being able to easily get back to where you started
8. It’s being given so many options that you don’t know where to start
9. It’s a dead link, just when you said “Aha! This is it.”
10. It’s the choice to use a small internal scrolling box for content as not to “mess up” the design
11. It’s the absence of understandable navigational signposts and “way-faring” indicators
12. It’s designers/companies who dictate what version of any given platform or app you need to view their site
13. It’s any barrier to the information you are looking for
14. It’s cutsie/meaningless menu item descriptions
15. It’s a site that doesn’t scale well to various resolutions
16. It’s bloated code, code that should be in an external CSS, bad code (Javascript errors and the like) and no doctype
    
17. It’s a print mentality applied to the Web
18. It’s “design in a void” with no consideration to content
19. It’s graphics that take for-EVAH to load
20. It’s built-in obsolescence – a site with no forethought to scalability.
21. It’s embedded key, informative text in graphics or frames, rendering it unreadable to search engines
22. It’s underlined text that looks like a link but isn’t and conversely…
23. It’s a design that doesn’t make it obvious what is clickable
24. It’s forcing people register for the most basic thing
25. It’s ignoring accessibility issues

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one comment:

Being a Firefox person, I was screaming an “FU” at one website yesterday that told me I could ONLY run in MSIE v5.0 and up.

Jacki Hollywood Brown () (URL) - 01.10.08