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, ...

In support of this month's theme on electrical design, the EC&M editorial team, our Code consultants, and contributing authors worked long and hard to produce some enlightening articles on this topic.

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 ...

Several factors can make a business’ website less effective than it might be, from cumbersome navigation to slow loading times, poor mobile performance and missing information. While a bad user ...

If you are thinking about having a site designed or redesigned, it is important to understand the complex relationship between SEO and web design. While designers focus on the aesthetic look of a ...

What happens when you try to sell a car with broken windscreen, worn-out paint and missing tire? No offers, right? That is exactly what happens when you have a bad web design. Your Homepage design is ...

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, ...

“Navigation” comes from two Latin words: navis (ship) and agere (to drive). According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the general meaning of “navigate” is “to steer a course through a medium… to ...

You only have a few seconds to make a first impression, and the majority of your website visitors will hit the back button long before they scroll down to get a better idea of your website’s value ...