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Comment by whoisjuan

Oh yeah. User-agent stylesheets and a list of links. The pinnacle of human-centered design. /s The author either doesn't understand design or has a very low-bar for tactically good user-centered experiences, or both.

I can list an endless list of bad things on this website:

- Bad information architecture.

- Poor contextualization, narrative, and direction of a message (just because it's Berkshire Hathaway, doesn't mean that I automatically know what I'm trying to find in their website)

- Poor document structure that renders at the whole width of wide screens and doesn't wrap for small screens.

- Bad typography and typographic scale (can a visually impaired person read the small text that shows dates and footnotes?)

- Bad use of color. Everything is blue, the links are purple. Usually in plain stylesheets blue is reserved for links and purple for clicked links.

- External links don't open in a new tab.

- No branding. Can a user trust that this is an official website?

- No navigational elements (navbar, breadcrumbs, etc) that allow a user to return to the main page (which is supposed to be the "master class of human-centered design). Every click is a dead-end.

- Multiple SEO and accessibility issues:

  - Does not have a <meta name="viewport"> tag with width or  
  initial-scaleNo `<meta name="viewport">` tag found. Document 
  does not have a meta description

  - Text is illegible because there's no viewport meta tag 
 optimized for mobile screens.

  - Tap targets are too small because there's no viewport meta 
  tag optimized for mobile screens

  - The page does not contain a heading, skip link, or 
  landmark region
parent whoisjuan 6 years ago

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