I came across a couple links today that made me really think about the state of the internet’s UI. One word came to mind…BAD.

Now my problem isn’t that not everyone has an amazing UI, in fact most are mediocre to bad, but at least they try and not everyone can afford graphic designers (or the skills).
My problem though is with letting users and your site go haywire. Case in point below:

• Clean Up Facebook Greasemonkey Script
• Clean Up MySpace Greasemonkey Script

If these scripts have to be created for your site, you’re doing something wrong! I’m all about user customization, but my problem lies in the fact that people don’t know what they’re doing, and when I visit a MySpace.com or Facebook.com site and there are blinking, twirling, “unreadable by poor color decision” texts and pictures on the page that now scrolls horizontally and vertically, well…it just makes me sad.

My solution is that designers lay out the page with areas to put things, don’t include ads in objects that people will embed in those sites, keep color customization to themes, and only allow so much crap…sorry, “extras” to be added to the page.

The internet in 2007 is about content. We’re done with 1997 and it wasn’t pretty. Think about how much content people are able to look and grab at. Speed readers and internet readers share a skill not many take into account, the ability to scan pages. We should be making the internet more accomodating. Do I like to sit in front of a webpage figuring out where the content is? No. Show me where it is, visually. Let me know what I’m looking at so that I can already read and be done and off to another site before I realize I just looked where you intended to land me.

Please, help me spread the word…save the UI of the internet. The tubes are clogging as we speak, er…read.