#7 Worst Web Site Navigation — jones, partners: architecture

Submitter's comments: A front page that requires you to take a quiz before you can enter the site, distracting Flash animation, hidden navigation tools, and pretentious text. This site has it all.

Vincent Flanders' comments: Many/Most/All architecture firms' web sites truly exist on the lower levels of web design hell. Maybe architects spend so much time in tall buildings their brains become oxygen deprived. While architects understand that buildings must work or fall down, they don't understand that web sites are the same way.

I'm not sure about the quiz. I didn't see one in IE, Firefox, or Opera.

What is it with architectural firms like M E D I U M, ushida findlay, Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, Torchia, and a bazillion other firms?

Other comments #1: What was going through their mind? This certainly isn't corporate. I feel sorry for frequent visitors having to wait a few minutes before they can get to the site. Oy! Hidden links, Mystery Meat Navigation, ridiculous music, ostentatious text ... looks like a French Art film.

Other comments #2: It at least makes me feel better about my own poorly designed web site.

Other comments #3: Regardless of who the audience is, this site is simply terrible! I mean truly, truly awful. It hijacks the browser window and won't let me resize it making all the text absolutely huge so even if I wanted to read all that utter crap it'd be a painful experience. Then there's the *INVISIBLE* MMN! To continue the building/web site analogy, I guess in their buildings you have to push all the walls until you stumble into the room you were looking for.

jones, partners: architecture