Why do Web Designers love Sticky Elements, when website visitors hate them?
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January 1st, 2020
Sticky Elements are the areas of websites that you cannot scroll out of. When you scroll down, the Element remains.
A lot of websites think you (the website visitor) find Sticky Elements to be “helpful”.
Meanwhile, no website visitor finds them helpful.
So why do web designers love Sticky Elements so much?
(And congratulations to Fluther’s designers, who never fell for the stupid, pointless trend)
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I don’t think the designers think they are helpful.
They know they are annoying as hell, but that’s what they are used for; to annoy the user (and by doing so, make you ‘remember’ the company/brand that put it there).
Is what I think.
Sticky navigation menus on scrolling sites can be helpful (says the web designer).
One application that we have at work keeps a sticky <SUBMIT> button on the lower right of the screen, because there can be lots of data and we didn’t want to make it difficult for the end user to click <SUBMIT> no matter where he was.
As for non-functional elements – like advertising or talking heads on news sites – I can;t stand them.
@rebbel “They know they are annoying as hell, but that’s what they are used for; to annoy the user (and by doing so, make you ‘remember’ the company/brand that put it there).”
The thing is, if your site is so obnoxious and annoying that I’m closing the tab out then I’m not going to remember the advertisers. I’m only going to remember that the site was obnoxious and I’m never going to visit that site again.
@Darth_Algar Yeah, I get that.
That’s why I bracketed remember.
I should/could have used/add the term subliminal.
Not that I’m an expert at that, but I think that’s one of the tools that advertisers use.
The DICKBARS
I made Fluther have one. And it never goes away. Just sits there at the top screaming, “This website is an asshole”.
I did that to show off a bookmarklet that does a fairly good job at removing that stuff.
Click a button and it removes all the fixed elements on the page.
If you make a new bookmark and paste this into the URL part like this it will nuke that garbage when you click on it.
@cookieman . No. They’re not helpful. They get in the way. What’s wrong with just pressing the Home button? So easy. So perfect.
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