Comments on: Design Decisions That Annoy Readers Part 2

By: glasnost

glasnost — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:39:11 +0000

Well Done! I Like it!

By: 15 Design Decisions That Annoy Readers | Devlounge

15 Design Decisions That Annoy Readers | Devlounge — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:09:36 +0000

[...] Auto-Play Music Snoskred says, If a site plays music at me I find out which site it is, close it down ASAP, and if that site was in my google reader I choose to unsubscribe right away. Read the full comment. [...]

By: Three More Types of Advertising Readers Don’t Like to See » Reader Appreciation Project

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:07:06 +0000

[...] wasn’t until I published my post on annoying design decisions that I started to really notice advertisements that stated I had won something [...]

By: Avoid the Putting Readers Through Layers of Bureaucracy » Reader Appreciation Project

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:00:58 +0000

[...] Obtrusive advertisements are advertisements that get in the way of the content. In fact, one of the annoying design decisions the readers of this blog came up with dealt with obtrusive advertisements. [...]

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:40:20 +0000

Yep, developers are their own species. So since I’m half, that means someone out there has done some inter-species no no’s

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:42:03 +0000

“Part mammal?” So, developers and mammals are separate species?

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:26:48 +0000

I suppose it depends on browsing habits. I don’t have many tabs open unless I am working on a design/plugin, or researching material for a post. If a blog did start blaring music though, you betcha I won’t come back.

By: Snoskred

Snoskred — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:48:43 +0000

Amen Andrew! I do the exact same thing. If a site plays music at me I find out which site it is, close it down ASAP, and if that site was in my google reader I choose to unsubscribe right away.

I don’t mind if someone has a little player on their sidebar where you can press play – that doesn’t affect me. I won’t press play because I got my own music going on. But if it plays all by itself, that’s bad.

I had one site do a talking ad to me recently, and unsubscribed on the spot.

I don’t like flashing ads. And I agree with all the things you’ve mentioned here and in the previous post.

Snoskred
http://www.snoskred.org/

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:23:59 +0000

Another problem with sites that have sound is that I, using Firefox, tend top browse through a page, open all the links of interest in new tabs, then go the next page and do the same, so I often have 10-20 tabs open that I haven’t looked at yet.

When one of them plays sound, or decides I need my browser resized, I have to go through all of them to figure out which one is playing very loud sound at me. Usually I just shut down that tab and don’t go back.