7 eye-opening web design mistakes even the best web designers make

Since your childhood, you love art classes and love to play around with colors. When you grew up, you decided to make your passion for colors a lucrative career option so you decided to enroll in a digital design program and passed it with excellence. Now, you have your sights set on making your childhood dream come true by making a career in web design.

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You stepped into the web design industry and faced many obstacles around the way. You made numerous mistakes throughout your career but keep learning from those mistakes and kept on improving. 

Now, you have reached a point in your career when everything you produce is of high quality. Irrespective of how good a web designer you are, there are some common mistakes that you might still be making without realizing it. Web design Dubai is free from such mistakes because professional web design companies are aware of it. Here are those mistakes.

Hidden navigation

Creating website without paying attention to simplifying website navigation is one of the biggest mistakes web designers can make. Whether it is about hiding it behind hamburger menu or placing it where users cannot clearly see it or confusing navigation, making it difficult for your website visitors to navigate is the worst thing you can do to your website. It will send your website bounce rate skyrocketing as more and more visitors will abandon your website. In worst case, all these visitors will go to a competitor’s website.

Filling the website to the brim

Gone are the days when web designers used to decorate websites with all the visual eye candy and bells and whistles. Today, most web designers are embracing minimalism instead of going overboard with visual effects and fancy animations, which is also the right way to go about it. If you are a web designer who is still using the old approach to web design, your website will look great to look at but takes ages to load. Such websites make compromises on performance and user experience to enhance the aesthetics.

Lack of sitemap

Just like hidden or confusing navigation, lack of sitemap can also add to the woes of your website users by making it difficult for them to navigate your website. Apart from users, search engines also struggle to index different pages of your website if you do not have a sitemap as its bots cannot figure out how many pages are there on your website and how they connect with one another. Always include a sitemap in your website even if you do not have time to do so, use sitemap generating tools to generate a sitemap for your website automatically.

Not creating responsive designs

With so many digital devices out there, you want your website to everyone irrespective of the device they are using to access it. When creating a website for desktop, the focus of web designer is usually on making it look and perform brilliantly on a desktop. On the contrary, they should divert all their energies towards making their website perform equally well no matter what device or platform users are using to access it.

Neglecting social media integrations

The last thing most web designers consider when creating a website is social media integrations. Despite the popularity and activity on social media, it is ironic that many businesses and web designers never focus on integrating their websites with their social media pages. 

On the other hand, users visiting your website prefer to connect with your brand on social media. Adding links to your social media pages help users explore your social media pages and get in touch with you.

Poor or no optimisation

Whether it is images, videos, Meta title, Meta descriptions or Meta tag, optimizing your website is critical for enhancing the overall user experience of your website. Similarly, you need to optimize your website for speed and performance. If your website does not load quickly and perform well even on slower connections, it will leave a bad taste in the user's mouth and wreak havoc on your brand reputation. Steps such as using a CDN, minifying code or reducing the number of HTTP requests can make a huge difference in page load times and performance of your website.

Publishing without testing

No matter how good you are at coding, there are instances where you have made minor or major mistakes in code. If you do not test your website thoroughly and make it live without ensuring all the issues are ironed out, these errors will trickle to your live site. If the user experience is hampered due to one of these errors, it does not reflect well on your brand’s reputation. Pass your website through multiple rounds of testing and identify loopholes in your website. Fix these issues before your website is accessible for users on the internet.

Which is the biggest web design mistake you have ever made? Feel free to share it with us in the comments section below.