why do retail sites still do this?

[lauralh]

design annoyances

1) Popup windows
2) resizing the main window
3) popup windows that you can't resize
4) flash that needs to "load" before you can navigate the page
5) animation that replays every time you go to the site

and finally I get super-annoyed with 100% flash sites, so you can't link to a product itself.

edit: why the fuck did everyone comment on this and not alien abductions?

Comments

[kamakhai.livejournal.com]

If you're talking strictly about overblown promotional flash sites, then yes, standard logic is chucked out because they're trying to make an interactive commercial... that's what the companies want. However, I think the majority of developers value simplicity and usability above crazy navigation interfaces. The ones that don't tend to be inexperienced or fundamentally clueless.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

I think you and I agree completely about what is valuable in web design, we just disagree about how many professional developers are on the same page with us. =)

[mcsnee.livejournal.com]

However, I think the majority of developers ... tend to be ... fundamentally clueless.

I agree.