A New Year’s Resolution is a commitment that an individual makes to a project or the reforming of a habit, often a lifestyle change that is generally interpreted as advantageous. The name comes from the fact that these commitments normally go into effect on New Year’s Day and remain until fulfilled or abandoned. Usually these commitments are abandoned rather than fulfilled which is the same case for the following Usability Areas that still cause major problems today:

• Links that don’t change color when visited

• Breaking the back button

• Opening new browser windows

• Pop-up windows

• Design elements that look like advertisements

• Violating Web-wide conventions

• Vaporous content and empty hype

• Dense content and unscannable text

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 5:30 pm and is filed under Design & Usability.