International Commerce International Marketing Internet Advertising Internet Economy Internet Media Internet Prod. Commentary Online Advert. What drives me nuts is how hard web designers make it for people to find their way around a web site.
Most web sites are about as focused and convenient to navigate as the bargain shoe rack.
Instead of helping me find my way around, instead of offering functionality and features that help me get where I'm going and find what I'm looking for, they lay everything out in a big mishmash of buttons and text links, then wish me luck getting there. There are many reasons for this. The lack of standards doesn't make it any easier, either. Now, the prospect of standardization is remote at best. Nobody, from individual companies to the W3C, will ever be able to impose a standard interface on the web - any more than Nordstrom and Bloomingdale will ever lay their stores out in the same way.