The Pox of Pagination

28 March 2012

Jeff Atwood on the user-experience pox that is pagination: > In a perfect world, every search would result in a page with a single item: exactly the thing you were looking for. To me, pagination is a UX smell indicating that we don’t understand the user’s need. We just made someone’s life harder by lazily dumping stuff behind another set of interactions with the system and requiring them to do work to discover what we’ve buried. That means extra cognitive load, and extra clicks that are unrelated to the task the user was trying to complete.