For months, your bounce rate has been rising, conversions are dropping and profits dwindling. Seems familiar? Maybe you idealize your web presence?
The points below are frequent things in web design that really annoy your visitors. Check them out and if you recognize yourself in those, please, for your own sake, take some remedial action.
Aggressive Pop-ups
Distracting and annoying, they appear out of the blue before you can even read a single word!
No, we aren’t saying don’t use any modal pop-ups at all. We mean just be smart about this.
For example, let them show up when there’s a true value of the interruption or when users leave the web page.
Too Many Ads
In fact, showing many ads may do your brand harm even as it simultaneously boosts your income.
Too many ads, often just silly, ridiculous, or stupid, make visitors feel you are stealing their time, which damages users’ perceptions of credibility and your reputation.
Make sure that the ad messages are shown during the time periods that are most appropriate and the content is well thought out.
Multimedia On Autoplay
As if the pop-up window and ad haven’t already been irritating enough, autoplay takes this one step further.
Designers who add this annoying feature to websites, we’re speaking to you!
Haven’t you ever had the experience of opening web pages with unsolicited videos that autoplay without warning, making you scroll around desperately looking for the X button?
So why are you so cruel to others?
Preloaders
There is hardly a quicker way to get visitors to quit your site frothing at the mouth than to leave them helpless in the face of an intransigent spinning wheel (or maybe rearranging cubes, jumping dots, or some other things).
Complex Website Navigation
Badly structured sites also rank as one of the top pet peeves on the web. Wandering around your website like a labyrinth, people still can find the back button easily.
To avoid this scenario, use clean and intuitive UI designs that don’t limit the accessibility of users.
Now over to you — what annoying web design trends have you come across? Let us know and leave your valued comments!
