OBSTACLES AND PITFALLS IN DEVELOPMENT PATH

• No body ever gets it right for the first time

• Development is chock full of surprises.

• Good design requires living in a sea of changes.

• Designers need good tools.

• Performance design goals

• People may make mistakes while using a good system also

COMMON PITFALLS

• No early analysis and understanding the users needs and expectations.

• A focus on using design features or components .

• No usability testing.

• No common design team vision.

• Poor communication

COMMON USABILITY PROBLEMS

• Ambiguous menus and icons.

• Languages that permit only single direction movement through a system.

• Input and direct manipulation limits.

• Complex linkage.

• Inadequate feedback.

• Lack of system anticipation.

• Inadequate error messages.

IRRITATING CHARACTERS

• Visual clutter

• Impaired information readability

• Incomprehensible components

• Annoying distractions.

• Confusing navigation.

• Inefficient operations

• Inefficient page scrolling.

• Information overload