Skip to main content

Diigo Home

Show Numbers as Numerals When Writing for Online Readers (Jakob Nielsen's Aler... - The Diigo Meta page

www.useit.com/...writing-numbers.html - Cached

This link has been bookmarked by 9 people . It was first bookmarked on 16 Apr 2007, by a77ila.

  • 30 Apr 09
    • It's better to use "23" than "twenty-three" to catch users' eyes when they scan Web pages for facts, according to eyetracking data.
  • 18 Aug 08
    ikepigott
    Isaac Pigott

    * Why do users fixate on numerals? Because numbers represent facts, which is something users typically relish. Sometimes people are looking for specific facts, such as a product's weight or size, so product pages are certainly one place where you should w

    webdesign reference copywriting text standards usability delicious

  • 18 Apr 07
    • Why do users fixate on numerals? Because numbers represent facts, which is something users typically relish. Sometimes people are looking for specific facts, such as a product's weight or size, so product pages are certainly one place where you should write numbers as numerals. But even when a number doesn't represent a product attribute, it's a more compact (and thus attractive) representation of hard information than flowery verbiage.
    • Explain numbers starting with a trillion for most audiences. Explain numbers starting with a billion if you write for less numerate audiences or international users (you might say, for example, that "a trillion is a thousand billions.")
  • 17 Apr 07
    ailuro
    ailuro .

    It's better to use "23" than "twenty-three" to catch users' eyes when they scan Web pages for facts, according to eyetracking data. 根據研究資料,線上文章內容使用 阿拉伯數字(23) 會比文字型數字(二十三、貳拾叁)更具易讀性。應該適用中文吧!

    English Analysis Lingustics Tip

  • 16 Apr 07