There are websites that still keep those old wall of text designs and take you back to a way of building a site that chose one of the most hated fonts on the internet, Comic Sans, as their font of choice, and let’s not even start with the ridiculously huge font in the menu. Conflicting colors and various flickering animations distract users and ensure they completely clutter the site. This would continue to this day, but luckily history had at least some other plans for us before it could go on.
When you see bad web design, you know it. Why? Because it’s not user-centric. Browsing the site can get tedious, or you can get lost trying to find the information you’re looking for. In some cases, completing an action — like a purchase — doesn’t even feel so intuitive