Design vs Art Blog

Your website and company identity are very important for you, but also for your users, as they will use it as a website location sign. Now a days it’s almost a standard to place website logos on the top left corner, across the site.

Try not to place the logo first on one side for the homepage and on the other side for other pages. That could disorientate users and they might think they are not in your site anymore.

Check some good design examples, Social Actions and Apple.

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We know that FeedBurner does not have a great interface. They place the logo on the opposite corner…

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Color contrast could be a big usability issue. The problem is as simple as your users will not be able to read the information offered by your site.

Flixster is a good example of intentional bad design. Flixster is an online community for movie lovers, it has movie reviews and ratings, the site has many fans. But of course, those fans have a very good vision, I mean, it is really hard to read reviews.

Flixster use pictures taken from the movies as background for reviews. This is an accessibility problem and you should better use high contrast colors, like black and white.

Imagine you pay so much for that valuable information and your users can not read it! One more example, tiny letters on a picture background. Wear your glasses…

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Disclaimer: with this kind of article I want to point out usability and interface problems some sites could have. Please do not take this as an attack, take it as a free advice. I would like to make clear that this design problems could happen for many reasons, including lack of time or money.

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