Reducing Useless Clutter on Websites

Jeff Atwood

26 Dec 2004 — 1 min read — Comments

From the Articles That Unintentionally Parody Themselves department:

In the last article we listed some of the seemingly good but superfluous elements with which Web designers clutter their sites. We covered:

• Counters
• Close, Bookmark and Print this Window links
• Flashy menus that don't help the user
• Right-click protection scripts
• Animations
• Tunnel pages
• Background music

This time we will wrap up with some more examples and a list of ideas for how to spot cluttering knick knack.

Indeed, how would one spot this kind of problem? Perhaps by reading the very article itself...

web design user experience clutter reduction

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