Experience from Microsoft: 10 Web Design pitfalls to avoid

Today, we will analyze the web design practices and tendencies of the big-name software companies to see if we can learn something to avoid mistakes in our own work. Agree or disagree with my opinion, feel free to comment on the suggestions below. As a professional designer, your point of view is valuable and I look forward to your thoughts.

Occasional grumble.

I'm sorry if you hate it when the article is full of nit-picking nagging, and this article is a bit picky sometimes. I usually like to praise good design rather than criticize bad design, but when David. Appleyard and I decided to write a Microsoft design Trend analysis article, seemed to have to see what is messy, ugly, and even (or) failure of things.

To avoid criticism, I don't mention Apple in the following analysis or compare it to Apple alone. This is not because the PC is the least controversial to Mac, but because we just want to look at the design and development of web sites that we think are really lacking in practice. Microsoft is a very successful company and it will not be obscured by some problems. In fact, as noted later, Microsoft has some very good designers in some site teams, and we just propose that there should be a higher and more comprehensive quality control.

For this reason, let's analyze some of Microsoft's lack of design and development practices where you can benefit from this knowledge

1. Beware of certain mandatory plug-ins

The recent friction between Apple and Adobe has made us realize that relying on a completely closed Third-party plugin to create a Web site can eventually lead to some serious consequences. Microsoft seems to be repeating the mistake that the Web site is increasingly dependent on Silverlight.

I browsed the Microsoft site to prepare this article for the information is that the pop-up window is often harassed, notify me that the system does not install Silverlight so it is not the original way to browse these pages. My question is, "Why take this path?" "Especially for some simple slide effects, the techniques available are everywhere," he said. Admittedly, this is Microsoft's own Silverlight, so it's good business sense to support it, but that doesn't mean that joining them is the best option.

Whether you're a fan of Silverlight or not, my advice is to be very cautious if your site's functionality relies on any Silverlight or similar technology. The debate over whether to continue using flash development sites has continued to heat up and the adoption of second-tier systems like Silverlight has become more gambling. If possible, stick to Cross-browser, compliant code and tools-don't ask your visitors for extra operation or installation.