Have you ever felt like whenever you design for a new project, there's still something left that your new designed website drastically lack in the marketplace? We know how you feel at that moment.
There's always room for perfection. But if your website embraces some sorts of usability mistakes, then they could have become routine for designers & developers.
The concept “Usability” refers to ensuring the users in order to find out the websites quite effortless to use & understand, informative, pleasurable as well as powerful.
The major challenge that web designers usually face while designing the website is-- How to communicate with the users inconspicuously that they can find out the website “easy to use” without a hitch.
Most importantly, if we think like that- we as a web designer or developer can use the website effortlessly, then every user can use it very easily. Do you agree with the statement? When the website embraces usability issues, for users, it would be quite hard in order to use the website. For instance, if the user would not effortlessly use the website, the user become frustrated after that nobody saves your website with huge bounce rates- that's something not good for the future of your website.
Everyone looks for pivotal information on your website, nonetheless if he/she does not to know how to navigate the website, plus could not able to find out where the “search” option is! Now, this is something a nightmare! If the user could find how to go to “Home Page” to “Contact Page” then they would surely leave the website.
All you need to build the website, as a web designer, that must increase the eyeballs across the web. Let us dive into the terminology “usability mistakes” that you should not make for your next project: If there is-
Zero Navigation Support: One of the huge problems that users face a lot of times is that zero navigation support. Since, it is hard to surf this kind of websites. When it comes to design the website, myriad web designers make the same mistakes in order to provide navigation support. For instance-
- Creating the website of the website that is not connected to Home Page or other web pages on the website. That kind of pages are called- orphan pages.
- A web page with a lot of white space.
- There's no site map or search functionalities that are supposed to guide the visitors when it is needed. People usually hit the search box on the website. Due to the reason that they find it easy without wasting their time so much. That kind of users is called “search-dominant users”.
Avoid driving your potential customers away and design the website that is something clear & precise information as well as self-explanatory navigation.
Full Of Content, Content & Content: No, this makes the website a mess. Avoid to design the website that only embraces a cluster of content, videos, images, buttons & other elements where there's no space to breathe. Honestly speaking, it irritates everyone.
The use of balanced white space makes the web page a proper order & less clutter. The best thing is that people find it more scannable & readable. In a plain language, do not get your visitors confused, let them help to accomplish their objectives through your website.
Infinite Scrolling: Too much scrolling put all content of your website in one page only. Usually, all visitors do not believe to scroll till the infinite. And some of them just view the part of the website that is visible on the screen without scrolling down. When visitors see so a ton of information only in one page, then they prefer to leave the website.
No Help Support: Help support is a place where users find out the answers of their queries that they encounter while surfing the website. Providing valuable information that can be easily accessible as well as rendering answers in a way that are utterly understandable & followed. Help Support includes- help desk support, customer service & FAQs. If there is nothing like help support, then users find it zero informative.
Mouse Pointing In The Place Of Clicks: Most of the websites still have not adapted the completely click-free website. This kind of feature does not put the users in control of the web interface. Might be this is the future of web design. Nevertheless, this is something not encouraging.
In order to make the website appealing, designers have adopted a mouse-pointing feature instead of clicks. Undoubtedly, this can be quite frustrating for users. Maybe sometimes it looks amazing, but undoubtedly disturbing.
In short, web usability ensures the website is potent, easily accessible, effective & pleasurable from user's point of view.
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