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Annoying Web

Annoying Web

Nov 20, 2009

The 65 Most Annoying things about the Web. by Bra­dley Heb­don. We’ve come a long way on the web today. Or have we?  While we’ve inno­va­ted in many areas, we’ve also con­ti­nued to dis­re­gard pre-existing issues. And in some cases, we have also cre­a­ted new ones. Here is my list of the top 65 most annoying things about the web today....

What’s a banner for, anyway?

What’s a banner for, anyway?

Feb 1, 2008

A few topics on the cre­a­tion of an effec­tive banner. The main job of a ban­ner, oddly enough, is to take the users somewhere they pro­ba­bly weren’t plan­ning on going. That is, to steer them from what they are actu­ally loo­king for in the site. To that end, ban­ners must be com­pel­ling. A suc­ces­s­ful ban­ner explo­res the fact that...

Why do we sometimes ignore banners?

Why do we sometimes ignore banners?

Feb 1, 2008

Our brain, as a result of pre­vi­ous expe­ri­en­ces, works out cog­ni­tive models and dis­re­gards irre­le­vant ele­ments when sear­ching for information. More…“Were it a case of agno­sia, the pati­ent would see now what he had always seen, that is, he would not have suf­fe­red any decre­ase in his visual acuity; the brain would have...