Most Hated Advertising Techniques (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

forkmeister | 25 March 2005

Topics: Linkdump


The Most Hated Advertising Techniques…iets

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Design Element Users Answering
“Very Negatively”
or “Negatively”
Pops-up in front of your window 95%
Loads slowly 94%
Tries to trick you into clicking on it 94%
Does not have a “Close” button 93%
Covers what you are trying to see 93%
Doesn’t say what it is for 92%
Moves content around 92%
Occupies most of the page 90%
Blinks on and off 87%
Floats across the screen 79%
Automatically plays sound 79%

These numbers are based on 605 respondents in 2004;

similar numbers were found in 2002 and 2003.


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