How important is "web design" to you as someone browsing the web?

Crikey that Nissan site took me back to the days of dial-up modems, be interesting to know how many people click off it and think it don't work before seeing the content!

It scored a whopping 29 on Google insights, don't think I've ever seen one with a 96 for best practices but just 29 for something else.
 
Rocky-Roader said:
Crikey that Nissan site took me back to the days of dial-up modems, be interesting to know how many people click off it and think it don't work before seeing the content!

It scored a whopping 29 on Google insights, don't think I've ever seen one with a 96 for best practices but just 29 for something else.
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Yeah... websites like these definitely prioritise the look rather than the speed and actual usability of it.

I don't get why... the flashing and all that makes me want to click off, so in essence, it'd impact their traffic if anything.
 
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Extremely important.

I utterly loathe that websites pander more to robots than they do users.
(SEO)

I also loathe the intrusive nature of websites, from cookie requests, privacy requests, especially when they are ultimately ignored anyway.

I was on the Curry’s website the other day (I know, I know), the drop down menus on the left hand nav bar simply didn’t work on Safari on my iPad. Annoyingly on top of that, the amount of idiotic pop ups asking me to sign up for a newsletter or some other annoying marketing dirge just immediately made me rage quit the website.

I literally had 4-5 pop ups that took away focus whilst simply trying to navigate the site itself.

There’s a reason that Amazon is the biggest game in town. Curry’s lost a potential sale (I was looking for cookers) due to poor web design. (I went to John Lewis instead)

Good web design is paramount regardless if you’re a designer or not.
Unfortunately, good design is low down on the list of priorities. Especially when usability hardly registers.

But this is a reflection of society in general. You only need to look at how ugly architecture is these days. From ‘New Builds’ to glass towers.

Ugly and unusable, is the new King these days unfortunately.
 
"...Good web design is paramount regardless if you’re a designer or not.

Unfortunately, good design is low down on the list of priorities. Especially when usability hardly registers...."

I used to work at graphics and a bit of web design. Really got fed up with putting a lot of work in that just wasn't appreciated.

Even now we have a marketing team which In assume are both colour blind and visually deaf. They outsource everything and everything that approve is just awful. Visual Vomit. Colors that just don't work together stuff that doesn't line up. It's the same across development they build apps and websites that are truly visually poor. But they won't listen. I've stopped trying to convince them.
 
I strongly dislike hard-to-read websites.
Text paragraphs that have too much line spacing. Worst offender is Britmodeller website.
Asrock website has an imo annoying webpage for driver download, because not only is the line spacing too great, there's graphic inbetween. Basically text inside a grid.

Btw, if making web graphics in an image editor, the kerning for a font might be disabled, which may explain why sometimes textures in games with typed text, have kerning apparently turned off, looking weird.
I don't remember quite when I noticed this, could be when I last had a subscription for Photoshop many years ago. Sadly I've forgotten most of the details.
I also made my own font once which was fun (Font creation software). Not easy at all coming up with something that look interesting.
 
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