Kellie 80 on 2008-05-23
I wonder, with the exposure kids have to web content, if this impacts how they view a textbook page. If so, will they be "missing" sections because the textbook page is not designed for this type of eye pattern?
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Gabi WitthausEyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
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Jin TsubotaEyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
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Maru del CampoAn article useful to design our future BaeL website. Shows how people read webpages, the F pattern.
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F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. In a few seconds, their eyes move at amazing speeds across your website’s words in a pattern that's very different from what you learned in school.
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This dominant reading pattern looks somewhat like an F and has the following three components:
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Karina HillestadF-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
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Alexis KrystenHow eyes move across the Web page when reading.
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Stuart DeaneResearch into how readers looks at webpages with eye tracking
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Jo McLeayHow eyes move across the Web page when reading.
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Tania Shekoscanning behaviours of webpages; hints about what to write where in order to get read
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Mr. DiGiEyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
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slith oneEyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
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Sam BachertEye-tracking software was used to determine on several web pages the pattern people view the pages. Consistently it is in a F-Shaped pattern. Do students do the same with web content?
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- Users won't read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word manner. Exhaustive reading is rare, especially when prospective customers are conducting their initial research to compile a shortlist of vendors. Yes, some people will read more, but most won't.
- The first two paragraphs must state the most important information. There's some hope that users will actually read this material, though they'll probably read more of the first paragraph than the second.
- Start subheads, paragraphs, and bullet points with information-carrying words that users will notice when scanning down the left side of your content in the final stem of their F-behavior. They'll read the third word on a line much less often than the first two words.
Implications of the F Pattern
The F pattern's implications for Web design are clear and show the importance of following the guidelines for writing for the Web instead of repurposing print content: - Users won't read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word manner. Exhaustive reading is rare, especially when prospective customers are conducting their initial research to compile a shortlist of vendors. Yes, some people will read more, but most won't.
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The biggest determinant for content usability is how users read online - and because people read differently, you have to write differently.
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Joel ZehringThis article details reading patterns with online text. Readers tend to read the top of the article more thouroghly, then cherry-pick important points later in the article. Great quick-read article. [via David Warlick]
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Diane QuirkInteresting research about the way we read web pages and how that effects the design of pages.
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- The F pattern's implications for Web design are clear and show the importance of following the guidelines for writing for the Web instead of repurposing print content:
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t read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word manner. Exhaustive reading is rare, especially when prospective customers are conducting their initial research to compile a shortlist of vendors. Yes, some people will read more, but most won't . - The first two paragraphs must state the most important information. There's some hope that users will actually read this material, though they'll probably read more of the first paragraph than the second.
- Start subheads, paragraphs, and bullet points with information-carrying words that users will notice when scanning down the left side of your content in the final stem of their F-behavior. They'll read the third word on a line much less often than the first two words.
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Generally, however, reading patterns roughly resemble an F, though the distance between the top and lower bar varies.
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Andy Beaumont on 2008-12-11
This is a really interesting question.
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On the SERP (right example), the second crossbar of the F is longer than the top crossbar, mainly because the second headline is longer than the first. In this case, both headlines proved equally interesting to users, though users typically read less of the second area they view on a page
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Kellie 80 on 2008-05-23
This is a Google search page. As blogs & wikis become more & more prevalent, will that change reading patterns? And how much of our eye pattern is due to the limitations of .html?
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David WarlickEyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
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- Users won't read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word
manner. Exhaustive reading is rare, especially when prospective customers are
conducting their initial research to compile a shortlist of vendors. Yes, some
people will read more, but most won't. - The first two paragraphs must state the most important
information. There's some hope that users will actually read this
material, though they'll probably read more of the first paragraph than the
second. - Start subheads, paragraphs, and bullet points with
information-carrying words that users will notice when scanning down
the left side of your content in the final stem of their F-behavior. They'll
read the third word on a line much less often than the first two words.
- Users won't read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word
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Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
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Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
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- Users first read in a horizontal movement, usually across the upper part of the content area. This initial element forms the F's top bar.
- Next, users move down the page a bit and then read across in a second horizontal movement that typically covers a shorter area than the previous movement. This additional element forms the F's lower bar.
- Finally, users scan the content's left side in a vertical movement. Sometimes this is a fairly slow and systematic scan that appears as a solid stripe on an eyetracking heatmap. Other times users move faster, creating a spottier heatmap. This last element forms the F's stem.
- Users first read in a horizontal movement, usually across the upper part of the content area. This initial element forms the F's top bar.
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Users won't read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word manner. Exhaustive reading is rare, especially when prospective customers are conducting their initial research to compile a shortlist of vendors.
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The first two paragraphs must state the most important information. There's some hope that users will actually read this material, though they'll probably read more of the first paragraph than the second.
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wendy thomasHow the eyes read webpages
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Tami BrassEyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
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Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
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Mike KossHow web pages are actually read - data from eye-tracking studies. Quoted: Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
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