Are you guilty of these 20 web design crimes?

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Standards project North has identified 20 'outdated UX patterns'. Do any of them appear on your websites?

Want to ensure your web design projects conform to agreed practices? North is a collaborative, evolving project on GitHub that lays out a "set of standards and best practices for developing modern web based properties".

Nothing here is set in stone - contributions from the community are welcome and it's "meant to be a living document". But it's still an interesting insight into what some consider the right and wrong things to do. And as the Sideproject.io blog recently noted, its list of Outdated UX Patterns makes for particularly fascinating reading.

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