Great product design, mediocre onsite user navigation

I am a big fan of Apple products. Well exept proprietary iTunes with all that CRM-and-such-and-more-crap (just lost all my playlists the other night by moving my MP3s to another hard drive). But sometimes they are missing details.

Take Apple’s webstore, for instance:

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I  counted not less than 9 ways to link a page (highlighted in blue): textlinks in various colors and sizes, with mouseovers and without (I added a blue halo to the mouseovers), with icons and without, images with links and without, buttons in forms and as part of a graphic. Woohoo!

The question is: does anyone care? The site is still usable, isn’t it? So is all that webdesign mantra overestimated? Well, for me it isn’t. Sure, todays webusers are accustomed to bad navigation. But yet it helps especially the not-so-web-savvy (yes, this one’s for you, grandma) to use your site… and finally to buy your products!

I know, I’m just being a bitch about it. But sometimes it’s nice to see a big player stumble

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