Web pages that suck
by Vincent Flanders · first published 1998
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Another seminal book for me, was Web Pages That Suck. They actually used to throw shade on Creating Killer Web Sites. Lots of big egos, back then. I learned quite a bit from that book. I think Flanders may still have a site. I was on his mailing list,…
on “Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen” ↗web pages that suck by vincent flanders
on “The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI” ↗That takes me back. The "Web Pages That Suck" book was what got me into web design and programming. Unfortunately, while I bet almost all designers would recognize that mystery meat is bad in the classic 90's context of using it on a homepage,…
on “Repository Next” ↗Yeah yeah, everyone should know about the perils of "Mystery Meat Navigation" from the 1996 book "Web Pages That Suck." I'm sure that the icons were being used only as demonstration here, and that no one would actually do such a thing in this day and age.
on “The Era of Symbol Fonts” ↗Some people have asked, "Where are the sites?" Well, the menu above should aim you in the right direction. Too bad that Web Pages That Suck sucks.
on “Whatever goes up, that’s what we do” ↗In the last century, I was a reader of a rather intense pair of guys that wrote Web Pages That Suck[0]. A pretty common refrain, was talking about design that prevented people from easily giving you their money. NNG[1] takes a similar posture, these days. They tend to hold up Amazon, as the king of…
on “Bugs That Cost Money” ↗Back in the ‘90s and early aughts, there was a well-known book called Web Pages That Suck. One of their biggest refrains, was “Stop interfering with your user, when they are giving you money.” They used to regularly hold up Amazon as the platonic ideal of an e-commerce site, but even Amazon…
on “Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups” ↗