Avoid Clutter
March 12th, 2009
When designing user experiences try to avoid confusion, clutter as much as you can, by keeping the website / webapp as simple as possible.
Users can logically deduct certain steps, processes when interacting with the web application.
For example when I design administration interfaces I always skip the log out message, because the scenario is the following:
- The administrator clicks on the log out button
- The application logs him out, and returns to the home page
At this point the administrator knows that the log out was successful, there’s no need to implement an extra message saying: You are logged out.
On the other hand, if the log out failed, then the application won’t redirect the user to the home page, instead keeps him on the administration page.
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