[IxDA Discuss] Common design mistakes?

[mark Schraad]

Jenifer,

While all of those you mention are common and frequent mistakes, the tendencies that I see that are most problematic are a) design for a focus group of one (me), and b) designing for other designers (to win awards) and c) not thinking contextually about the situational use. 

Mark

 
On Monday, August 14, 2006, at 08:06AM, Jenifer Tidwell <jenifer.tidwell at gmail.com> wrote:

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>IxDers,
>
>I am thinking of putting together a half-day course for CHI 2007.  As
>I prepare for it, I'm curious about something.  What, in your
>experience, are the most common design mistakes made by novice or
>untrained designers?  (Or those most likely to be taking an
>introductory CHI course?)
>
>I'm thinking of mistakes like these:
>
>* Inability to use visual hierarchy to properly structure a page.
>* Poor use of alignment, grouping, and whitespace, leading to a page
>that's easy to misread.
>* Content-thin pages, requiring too many clicks to get something done.
>* Not anticipating user goofs, thus requiring users to reenter
>information or otherwise repeat themselves.
>* Thoroughly gratuitous -- and irritating -- use of animation.
>
>And so on.  What else have you seen in your work with less-experienced
>designers?
>
>(The course will focus on the design of Web applications, though not
>exclusively.  I will be teaching UI patterns along with it, but I want
>to do a course with a little more depth than just a recitation of
>common patterns!  What fun would that be?)
>
>Thanks,
>
>         - Jenifer
>
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