Are you looking to enroll in some classes at the University of Florida or to join a trendy terrorist network? Either way, you may end up at isis.ufl.edu, the website for the "Integrated Student Information System" of the University of Florida. Besides its unfortunate name, isis.ufl.edu will be sure to annoy you for the following reasons:
- The majority of the page is blank space, while the dozens of links are all in a very small font.
- The word "Services" in the "My Online Services" heading on the top left is cut off.
- The picture of the dorm-dwelling guitar player in the top right is highlighted with an outdated blue "shadow effect".
- There does not seem to be a logical ordering or design to the expandable headings in the sidebars.
- Some of the headings are expanded, while others are not.
- I count 15 different headings. Grouping these headings into fewer, broader categories would make it easier for users to find the links they are looking for.
According to this year-old article, the University of Florida plans to change the name of its information system after a request from the family of a journalist who was murdered by the ISIS terrorist network. Since it is taking so long to update the website and since it was so bad to begin with, I can only imagine that the website's designers never had the privilege of taking a web design and development class with Dr. Oge Marques.
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