A well-designed website need to be clear, peculiarly. No flashing GIFs (we miss you, 90s!), no obnoxious flash menus, no overwhelming lists of links. And heads up, WaPo website: it shouldn’t be blanketed in insanely redundant Facebook sharing buttons.
SHARE ME! LIKE ME! LINK ME! We get it. Enough. One or two buttons should suffice. We understand how to place things on Facebook if we wish to. One sharp-eyed BuzzFeed contributor spotted not one, not five, not eight, but twelve instances of Facebook’s ubiquity. Social media sharing is cool-but designing your newspaper like Zuckerberg’s pin cushion seriously is not. And as a reader, is basically, really annoying. [ BuzzFeed ]
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