On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Caroline Jarrett wrote:
And now, applications. I'd love to have a chance to do some eye- tracking on applications.
Well, we haven't done eye tracking studies on this, but have used a two column approach a number of times for applications. It's not so much the two columns that makes or breaks it as it is the visual design of the thing. When we do a two column approach, we use the fieldset attribute in HTML and place a visual border around the sections. This makes it pretty clear that these are "sections" of the application.
We have done usability testing, not eye-tracking, and found that this model has been very successful a number of times, increasing efficiency, accuracy, and satisfaction.
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