Good interface design must be a user-friendly, used and consumed by individual that when they need it they just click it and use it without any mess at all. But if found a bad interface design, they have to struggle and exert effort to get into the site or just close the site without been able to complete the task they have in mind because it is peril to move on to this kind of site. To avoid, there are 7 things to be familiar with graphics problem:
1. One of the biggest problems that visitors really hate is slow loading pages. The cause is usually by having either too many graphics that are too large. People get tired of waiting that makes the site useless and that they never mind seeing it.
The best thing to do is use graphics sparingly which is the easiest way to keep the size of the page down as it loads faster.
So think of your visitors first, not your design skills. You may want to show them the world what a good website designer you are, but if no one sees your page then your efforts are being wasted.
2. No compelling Headline.
Research studies show that web page visitors tend to focus most of their attention on the headlines and text blurbs and the rest is just they scan over.
Almost of the visitors always look at the words before they see at the images. This means that as web designer must make sure to use words or title that hook to their interest. So the designer must use most captivating and powerful words at the beginning of the headline, sub-headline or introductory paragraph.
Remember that there is only 10 seconds to grab the visitor’s attention to compel them to stay on the site. Make every second counts by giving the words to keep them reading and stay connected.
3. Distracting banners and links
Distracting banners and links can confuse and irritate the visitors. To avoid this problem, the banner must follow the compression and dimension requirement. In addition, the animation should only loop three times and the button banners should not be animated. The design should be directly point out the purpose or links the main content of the site like promoting the sales or products.
4. Many dizzying colors or fonts
Color is a powerful design tool which adds visual interest, draws the eye, and communicates information to the user. Designers often misapply color to the point of reducing the usability of their designs.
Too many colors and fonts are bad and make the visitors woozy and it tends to be difficult to read. By using contrasting colors, the text is easy to read when the font text color and the background color are in high contrast. Low contrast mode irritates the reader and causes eye fatigue especially to viewers with impaired vision that they may not be able to read low contrast text at all.
Use font style for maximum readability. Plain text or mixed case is easier to read than italicized text or upper case. Studies show that it takes people longer to read upper case than mixed case. Besides, upper case has become synonymous with screaming on the web and that it is not recommended to scream at any visitors.
So learn what text color or color schemes and fonts that works to display the best appearance of the words that can be easily read by the website visitors in order to commit the point of your goal.
5. Patterned backgrounds
A background is an image which is placed on a web page to add color or design to the page. The tables, graphics and text are placed on top of the background image to complete the web page.
This may take a long period to load than the text so it is advisable that the text must be separate from the background so that the text will load first. So the visitor can then begin reading something like products/sales while waiting otherwise they may click out if it takes to long. Also remember that the text and background should be matched because wrong combination of foreground and background colors can render a text block difficult or impossible to read.
Designing a web background must think beyond the basics but consider the web page visitors’ concern.
6. Too many distracting graphics, animations, and video clips.
There’s nothing wrong with creative transitions when designing a webpage but make sure that the one you choose is simple and not too distracting. Though graphics make the visitors livelier and engaging, overusing them may end up boring.
Animation makes things move and active, but having too much moving objects and clicking sounds do not help the purpose to promote the products.
Using video helps the technical products to show how they work, providing product specifics to achieving a particular goal. Videos can be used as medium for training sales representation to show how a particular sales situation was handled by a sales person as this captures body language, tone and expressions but too many video clips in the page can lost the readers interest.
7. Huge blocks of text that are nearly impossible to read
Vast blocks of dense text intimidate the reader which causes information overload. There are some tips to minimize this problem such as use bullets and subheadings to get the readers attention. The subheadings should be brief and convey a summary of the section; another is that keep the paragraphs short like breaking the long paragraph into smaller sections and provide little white space between the paragraphs to give the site a clean look thus invites the viewer to read. In addition, highlight the text or by bolding the important details of the products so that the visitors can glance at the page and hit the important points of the purpose.