Please Press My Button

I think it is about time that the internet got an equivalent of the -1/dislike button.
A button for those with an interest in functionality and user design that says a site is bad.
I call it:

The 'This Site is a Piece of shit' Button

Offenders I have seen this week:

• Facebook apps that force you to like them and then don't work.
• Web pages that link you to someone elses link, which takes you to someone elses link, which might (if you are lucky) take you to the place you actually want to go.
• Pop unders? In 2011??
• Brand sites that make you register before you can engage with them
• "I just spent 5 minutes getting my QR reader to work for this?!"
• Mobile sites that are big enough to strain a home Wi-Fi connection
• This video is not available in your country (even though the content is)
• The Ben Terrett Award for bad typography
• (From Nick) "Let me just resize your browser window for you, as our site is so awesome it has to take up your whole screen!"
• (From Nick) "How about some fancy music? No? Well, I'll play it anyway, and hide the 'mute' button in the top right hand corner for you."
• (From Miss Heather) An intro page. Still? Really?! Do you not see why this is such a bad thing?

Any more?

A Note for Myspace

When spending a shitload of money to redesign and revamp your site, change your identity and refocus your business model; you really need to pay attention to how people use it.

The old myspace site was slow, cluttered, full of conflicting navigation, full of irritating ads. The new myspace site is slow, cluttered, full of conflicting navigation, full of irritating videos and ads.

They have clearly learnt nothing at News Corp. Even at its worst, Facebook lets you see everything you want in one go, at minimal fuss. Myspace wants you to drag and search around before you find anything.

It's not like they didn't ask. I did the longest questionnaire in history a few months back describing everything that was wrong, and what we got was the same site but looking a little nicer.

Focusing on music is a smart move for myspace, sadly they seem to have got everything else wrong.