Usability guru Jakob Nielsen outlines the top 10 web design mistakes of 2005, and offers some helpful tips:

… users don’t care about technology and don’t especially want new features. They just want quality improvements in the basics:

• text they can read;
• content that answers their questions;
• navigation and search that help them find what they want;
• short and simple forms (streamlined registration, checkout, and other workflow); and
• no bugs, typos, or corrupted data; no linkrot; no outdated content.

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