Great Design / Bad Usability

As I’ve previously written about. Usability should also be the first priority in building a website. I’ve found an example of beautiful design, but lacking completely in usability. I realize of course it’s a design site, so they’re trying to look “cutting edge”, however that is no excuse for not being able to find you’re way around.

Some major problems I see:

1. They’ve change the cursor, which is okay, but they’ve made it the cursor for everything, and now you can’t tell when you’ve moused over a link.
2. They haven’t labeled their navigation buttons, and even worse they’re barely noticeable. They look like cursors on the screen.
3. No sitemap in case you do get lost.
4. Completely done in flash… looks good, but as you can tell… unusable.

Check ‘er out.
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