F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content

[email protected] (Jakob Nielsen) Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:00:00 -0700

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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for April 17 is now online at:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html
	
Summary:
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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