#baduxdesign

Suzanne Collins, author of the hunger games, has an interesting website. At first I thought it was a “web-brutalist” website, but typically those have a note somewhere stating that they’re “ironically bad” or something along those lines. 

There is a lot to say about this website. The biggest issue that I had with it is that there are huge gaps of white space in between her books that she has listed. In order to screenshot the last image here, I had to zoom out to 33% to get the books together in the same frame - thats how far apart they are spread. Also, none of the books are aligned the same way. Some of the images are aligned to the center of the page, some are aligned left ... it’s all just a mish-mash of images thrown on the page. 

Also, none of the images of her books are clickable. She lists out all of her books she’s written, yet there is no way to click on them to find out more, or more importantly, there is no link to buy them! Seems like a major missed opportunity to me. 

Whomever designed this form just wants to watch the world burn.

You could even call this trolling.

After typing a message, what would you press to send it?

The yellow button, right?

Likely because that’s the default placement of the Send button in every other messaging app, including Apple’s Messages.

Unfortunately, Snapchat decided that the yellow button would instead place your text over an image to be sent as a normal Snapchat.

You have to press the blue Send button on the keyboard to actually send a message in the messaging window.

It took me a while to figure this out, and I still find myself pressing the yellow button to send. I also can’t count how many times I’ve gotten Snapchats from friends in response, when it’s clear they were just trying to send me a message back.

A suggested fix: