In Small but significant usability sins that websites should never commit, Rian van der Mewe writes:

This is obviously a fairly random list of UI transgressions, but I feel like we talk about the big issues so often that we tend to skim over the smaller ones that can really add up.

Great list… and yes, sometimes it’s good to have a list of small specifics, whether you’ve done a lot of usability testing before or not. And some of them are issues for reasons other than user confusion; using PDFs, for example, makes content less searchable, translatable, etc.

Since a lot of what we do, at least in terms of interface design, is essentially web design, these apply.

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