It has always struck me how badly academic sites and software is designed, from technical, aesthetic and usability perspectives. Most seem to have been designed sufficiently well from a database/data storage perspective, but this often creates a long ‘click stream’ to achieve a goal, which is bad usability design and results in a frustrating user experience. Graphic designers evidently aren’t on the books of most journal publishing houses and academic software outfits, given the aesthetically unpleasing nature of most academic sites