What has happened with Amazon’s redesign? Three basic web design errors!
Was just away to order the monthly supply of books from Amazon.co.uk and i noticed they have had a redesign. Not overly keen on the visuals of the site as a whole, but when looking through i am stunned to see three basic, fundamental errors that is quite shocking to see on one of the worlds most visited and profitable online businesses.
1.) Viewing on a 1024 x 768 monitor there is side scroll ! If Amazon are saying that this is now, a depreciated size of monitor, they are mistaken.
2.) A click here link? Imagine a user viewing the page with a screenreader, (which is software that reads out web pages for blind users), is going to read out “Click Here”. This means absolutely nothing to them, the link should be descriptive and read the text to the left of the actual link : “Forgot your password”. This would helps to users they understand what they are about to click on, and navigate to. Imagine if a page had a 15 “click here” links. How is anyone going to navigate that page with ease! This would help both accessibility and usability of the site.
3.) Last but certainly not least, viewing the source code of Amazon.co.uk shows its riddled with tables, inline css and javascript. The worst offender of the three being tables, which could inspire a whole series of blog posts, why not to use them, alone.
Overall
Now these are three basic errors that i came across within minutes of being on the site. Im quite sure there would be be many more, on further inspection.
I’m shocked, annoyed and disappointed that in 2008, a business so “credible” as Amazon are have redesigned their site to such a low standard.
