Design Hotels Dot Com
www.designhotels.com - a mention from the fine chap at Konigi got me browsing my way over to designhotels.com because on the face of it the site looked pretty cute from the screenshot. Unfortunately that was where the affair ended.
Pretty and nicely decorated, sure, but the ux is naff. I choose France as a destination, why do I see just 3 categories, why do none of the categories suggest how many hotels are included therein, there are not even a dozen in total so why this waste of time interim screen?
I view Paris on the map, click a hotel, no visual feedback (tooltip) on which hotel marker I’m clicking, and if i go back - tada - the page has defaulted to it’s view images state. Now I have to re-select the map and trudge through this quagmire of an interface.
A fine example of a designer thinking just making it pretty is design. It’s not, it’s about communication, function, form all working harmoniously. A fine example of good design this website is not.
I could go into way more detail but I won’t life’s too short to waste on bad design 