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- You may have too many colors on your website.
- Look for every possible source of color and try to get rid of colors until you only have like 3 or 4.
- Even small things like the borders on textareas and inputs, and the colors of buttons, will contribute to a general sense of "this doesn't look good" if they don't match the 3 or 4 colors you want to use.
- Look for every possible source of color and try to get rid of colors until you only have like 3 or 4.
- You're using regular buttons to handle options that could instead be represented with checkboxes or radio buttons.
- Major websites (Stack Overflow, Gmail, Facebook) seem to try to limit pages to have only one or two buttons, to be used for major actions that can be taken on that page.
- Having lots of "regular" buttons, where a lot of them are used for "options", can be visually confusing.
- On Rhymecraft I had a "Toggle fullscreen" button that should've been a checkbox instead.
Examples of bad UI
- Needing to scroll down to find the main content of interest on a page.
- Examples:
- Yahoo Answers:
- I need to scroll down to find the answer on a particular page.
- Yahoo Answers:
- Examples: