Posts Tagged ‘User-Centered Design’

How Users Read on the Web: Nanocontent and Golden Triangles

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Jakob Nielsen’s recent Alertbox article has some interesting things to say about how users read on the Web.

Our newest usability study…tests how well users understand the first 11 characters of a website’s links and headlines.

Why test text that’s so severely truncated? Because online reading is often dominated by the F-pattern. That is, people read the [...]