Jacob Nielsen has released information from their eyetracking study, F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Alertbox).
My initial reaction was a knee-jerk “well, duh.” Part of this is seeing similar results from other eye tracking studies, but it may be me trusting in assumptions about how people scan pages.
Seeing “common sense” assumptions reinforced by research tends [...]
Mike Davidson has done the unthinkable: make a MySpace profile that doesn’t make designers’ eyes bleed.
Check out Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace for details, then take a look at the discussion on MySpace the great and powerful in Unstoppable Force or Unnecessary Click Factory?
As Mike notes, the profile page design is a bit of a [...]
As part of their Apple Turns 30 coverage, CNET’s showcasing photos of the early Lisa and Mac interfaces, courtesy of Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld.
For a somewhat less garish (though smaller) presentation of those same photos fortified with historical notes goodness, check out Hertzfeld’s “Busy Being Born” article on Folklore.org.
Whichever flavor you choose, it’s a [...]
I came across this game last weekend, catching up with some friends at Tech. I’ve been collecting games to write about lately, but this one was different enough from what I’ve been playing lately to jump the line.
Strictly speaking, you’re not supposed to tell people how to play before beginning, but it’s easier to get [...]
Austin Govella gets an interesting conversation going about technological developments swirling around what some are calling the “come to me” web. Structured content, microformats, json, rss and atom flavored web feeds, and other technologies are making our information more portable, but where do people fit into this improved info portability world? How will people use [...]
Mark Wubben points out one of the rough edges of the “DHTML bad, DOM Scripting good” direction of a lot of recent talk about popular best practices in JavaScript use.
In our zeal to point at how great DOM scripting and unobtrusive JavaScript are, it’s worth remembering that one of the key differences between these practices [...]