February 2007 Entries
02.06.2007
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02.02.2007
Judging a Book by Its Cover
"On average, a bookstore browser spends 8 seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15 seconds looking at the back cover. " Hmm, seems like we truly are a Blink society. Some book statistics. [+]
02.01.2007
Featuritis or just fudged numbers?
Two-thirds of Brits Use Just 4 Functions on their Phones. Pretty sensational. Except I'm not sure how many functions in total their phones had? Five? (If so, then 4 out of 5 isn't bad at all.) How useful were those other functions? For comparison, most people only use about 10% of the features of MS Word (and, no, this wasn't intended to be a jab at Microsoft). Frankly, who says the customer has to use all the features anyway? As long as they're happy with the product, who cares if he/she only uses one thing? [+]
02.01.2007
Visual Patterns for Browsing
As I suspected, the content presentation affects how people scan a page. If you liked Nielsen's F-pattern analysis, you'll love this: Eye Gaze Patterns while Searching vs. Browsing a Website [+]
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